The Ingersoll Schoolhouse is located on

U.S. Route 212 U.S. Route 212 (US 212) is a spur of U.S. Route 12, US 12. It runs for from Yellowstone National Park to Minnesota State Highway 62 (Hennepin–Dakota counties), Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota. It does not intersect US 12 no ...

east of

Belle Fourche, South Dakota Belle Fourche (; ) is a city in and the county seat of Butte County, South Dakota, United States. Its population was 5,617 at the 2020 census. It is near the geographic center of the United States, which moved some 550 miles northwest from the ...

and was built in 1890 at a time when one room schoolhouses were very common in South Dakota. It remained in use as a school through 1971. Due to highway development, the schoolhouse was selected for preservation by

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in 2012 under their Places in Peril initiative.

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Schools in Butte County, South Dakota Defunct schools in South Dakota Educational institutions established in 1890 Educational institutions disestablished in 1971 {{SouthDakota-school-stub