| Rural
Schools of Kalamazoo County
| Kalamazoo
Township |
| Alamo Avenue School |
District #14 - Section 7, west side of Nichols
Road, across from intersection with Alamo Avenue. School
built about 1876., later became part of the Kalamazoo Public
School System. In 1953 it was purchased by the Seventh
Day Adventist Church and remodeled for use as the Seventh Day
Adventist Junior Academy. Ten years later it was demolished
and replaced by the present structure on the same site.
See photo of the Kalamazoo
District 14 class of 1927. (KG 6/25/2000; |
| Grand Prairie School |
Section 7, southeast corner of Grand Prairie
Road and Drake Road (12th Street). Established about 1856.
"...its original school outlasted all other one-room
schoolhouses in the county." (1918 topo; KG 6/21/1959) |
| Drake School |
Section 19, north side of Michigan Avenue, east
of Drake Road (1918 topo) |
| Milwood School |
Section 35, west side of
Portage Road, about half a mile south of Cork Street (1918
topo) |
Sources used to compile this page:
- "Adventists operate new
parochial building," Kalamazoo Gazette, 20
April 1963.
- "Alamo Avenue School had full
house in 1945," Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 June
2000, page A4, column 1, includes picture of many
students posed in front of the building.
- "The end of an era [Grand Prairie School]," Kalamazoo
Gazette, 21 June 1959.
- Plat book of Kalamazoo County, Michigan...., Rockford,
ILL: Thrift Press, Map Makers, c1928.
- "Township school districts' tax rates show
cut," Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 November 1930, in Education
- Kalamazoo County Scrapbook, #1, page 5.
- USGS Topographic Maps for Kalamazoo County, 1918, .
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local
History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Updated 1
June 2005. |
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