| Rural
Schools of Kalamazoo County
| Cooper
Township |
| Brick School |
Section 11, southeast corner of B Avenue and
Riverview Drive (Hultmark; 1918 topo) |
| Cooper Center School |
Section 17, west side of
Douglas and north of D Avenue. Not right at the intersection.
(Hultmark; 1918 topo). Follow the links to see class
photographs: 1923, 1925,
1928, 1930 |
| Jug Corners
School |
Section 18, northeast corner
of D Avenue and 12th Street. Established about 1871 (Hultmark;
1918 topo; KG 6/19/1949) |
| Schau School |
Section 24, east side of Riverview Drive
between D and E Avenues (Hultmark; 1918 topo) |
| Delano School |
(District #5) - section 28,
southwest corner of E Avenue and N. Westnedge (1918 topo). A
class picture from about 1890 appeared in the Kalamazoo
Gazette on 13 June 1999, page B2 |
| Gardner School |
Section 35, east of Riverview Drive between G
Avenue and Mt. Olivet Drive (1918 topo) |
Sources used to compile this page:
- Hultmark, Sarah. List of one-room schools still standing
in Kalamazoo County in 1982. Manuscript, Local History
Collection, Kalamazoo Public Library.
- "Old Jug Corners School perpetuates a
failure," Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 June 1949.
- USGS Topographic Maps for Kalamazoo County, 1918, .
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local
History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999.
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