In Faust Park, Missouri's oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse for African Americans stands as a reminder of the past
African Schoolhouse #4, a small log house with white siding and red shutters, is Missouri's oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse; it's been reloca...

African Schoolhouse #4, a small log house with white siding and red shutters, is Missouri's oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse; it's been relocated to the park from Wild Horse Creek Road in Chesterfield. From deep in Faust Park, the music starts: 'America the Beautiful.' A group of about 100 people has gathered in the Faust Park Historic Village, a collection of 20 old buildings behind the park's Butterfly House, playground, and carousel. The buildings date from 1840–1910, and they give a peek at what life was like for the early residents of the lands that now make up St.