Shock and frustration follow schoolhouse vandalism
Connie and Richard Schumann were taking some friends on a tour of the countryside last Friday when they made an unpleasant discovery.
Vandals had smashed windows and scribbled graffiti in an old one-room school building they own and have worked to preserve over the years.
Wheelan School, Wabasha County District 22, sits on a gravel stretch of Wabasha County Road 9 south of Lake City.
Students attended the school from 1868 until 1965. Richard believes the current school building dates to about the 1880s.
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