Most if not all the previous generation did around here. If you lived beyond the reach of the tri-city area, (Albany, Troy, Schenectady - NY) it was mostly rural and farm land. In this town, there are 3 one room schools still intact and well preserved. 2 of buildings have been restored and are still in use. I was present some 25+ years back during one of the restorations as we made materials they needed in the mill at the lumber yard and delivered other materials needed as well. This was the Garfield School,(2nd link). It was one of the jobsites I liked to visit because of the history.
I've always had in interest in local history anyways and when doing some research, I found a railroad, ( spur or short line of 50 miles or so) supposedly existed behind this schoolhouse, it crossed land we once owned and I have never been able to find any sign that it existed, usually aerial photography will shed some light. No one recalls this railroad that I have spoken to. Ironically, another proposed railroad was also drawn in. Still a mystery to me. When I was a kid, there were some old telephone poles stacked in a clump of trees, (within a very large area of flat bottom land) that had glass insulators on them, clear and they may even be in my small collection of those. The RR was clearly shown on a map from 1876. That map is included in the link below and another.
Well anyways here are the schools and an article by Wikpedia showing a map before centralization in the 50's
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