A log school building was first raised at this site on Cullers Run Road in 1879. A more permanent frame building replaced it in 1898, and a second classroom was added in 1914. Beyond its role as a school, the building doubled as a Mennonite meetinghouse — Sunday school and afternoon services were held here for the small Cullers Run congregation, with pastors from Buckhorn or Mt. Hermon stepping in when no resident pastor was available.
When the three Cullers Run, Mt. Hermon, and Buckhorn congregations united to form Mathias Mennonite Church in 1973, regular worship at the schoolhouse came to an end. The building itself, however, has been carefully preserved. Ken and Ann Shifflet undertook a thorough restoration and donated the property to the Cullers Run School Association, which maintains it today.
Visitors find the schoolhouse remarkably intact — the original bell, pot-bellied stove, teacher’s desk, student benches, lunch buckets, textbooks, and class photographs are all on display. It is widely regarded as one of the most complete one-room school restorations in the United States.
The schoolhouse stands along Cullers Run Road south of Lost River State Park, and pairs naturally with a visit to nearby Mathias Mennonite Church, the modern home of the congregation that once gathered here.