Sleeper School, Glade Park, Colorado 38.988833 -108.899134 Glade Park Mesa Colorado USA https://goo.gl/maps/GyC2JooHBUzaKA9H8 Approximate location of Sleeper School An early school for grades 1-8 on Glade Park in Mesa County, Colorado. It was a one-room school house. Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who taught there during the 1920’s and 1930’s, recalls that there were about 30 students total between the eight grades. The teachers combined lessons, with those who did higher level work learning together and helping the younger students. Except for the rare family of children who rode a horse to school, the children walked, with some of them coming four or five miles through snow and cold. The students wrapped gunny sacks around their feet and legs and tied them with binding twine. They also wrapped cloth around their heads and hands. The school burnt down in 1945 and students were transferred to Coates Creek School. It was located slightly west of the place where the Little Dolores River crosses DS Road. During the Dust Bowl, unsustainable agricultural practices and drought resulted in dry conditions in which soil, lacking sufficient vegetation, blew away from Glade Park. As a consequence, many homesteaders and farmers left the area. According to Cordelia Files, enrollment dwindled from 30 to 5 students. *Some information for this entry was taken from "In the Beginning... A History of the Districts and Schools that became Mesa County Valley School District Number 51" by Albert and Terry LaSalle. yes yes