Last week I posted the photos of an old schoolhouse near Walla Walla. When I walked around that building to take those photos, I also spotted this….the coal or wood chute door down into the basement:

In case you cannot read it, it says “Hercules Fuel Chute.”

Here’s a really big laugh: When I Googled those words, all the results I got pointed to a Hercules cargo aircraft!

Do you suppose a student chore was to load the fuel through this chute into the basement and then into the furnace???