Edited to add: Jane Fonda was interviewed on Armchair Expert and mentioned that she rode a horse to school.
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The hitching post… literally invented for that reason.
However if we are looking back into a “movie type western” when people rode horses and there were steam trains and the wooden schoolhouse was a thing was probably only an era of 40/50 years from 1865 to about 1908 when the model T Ford arrived.
Many people who lived in towns in the 1860’s didn’t have horses of their own they travelled on foot, if they needed a horse they would rent one from a livery stable because horses were really expensive to own… before the 1860’s there wasn’t any form of compulsory education or much in the way of factories outside of towns.
If you are thinking about how people who lived on farms got to the school house every day it was 1918 before all American children had to go to an elementary school and the horse was already fading into history by then.
I’m not sure the idea of people turning up to work/school and parking their horse in a “horse park” was ever a real part of history.
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