| Rural
Schools in Kalamazoo County
| Oshtemo
Township |
| Buckhout School |
District #5 - location unknown, closed by 1950
(1950 directory). |
| Liberty School |
District #4 Fractional - Section 3, southeast corner of G Avenue and 7th
Street (1918 topo; 1950 directory) |
| Potter School |
Section 3, north side of H Avenue between 6th
and 9th Streets (1918 topo) |
| Garrison School |
District 3 Fractional - Section
5, southwest corner
of G Avenue and 3rd Street (1913 county atlas; 1916 topo; 1950 directory) |
| Chamberlin/Hurd |
District #3 - Section 14, north side of M43
between 7th and 9th Streets. Hurd School district was
organized on 11 May 1839. As of 1934, it had occupied four
buildings (Hultmark; KG 5/6/1934). |
| Slack |
District #8 Fractional -
Section 19, northeast corner of KL Avenue and Almena Road.
With the start of the 1938/39 school year, 7th and 8th grade
students from Slack School transferred to the Mattawan School
(Hultmark; KG 7/14/1938) |
| Coleman |
District #9 - Section 21, east side of 4th Street between L
and KL Avenues. Closed by 1950. (Hultmark; 1950
directory) |
| Findley School |
Section 23, north side of KL
Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets (1918 topo) |
| Miller Station
School |
District #14 - Section 28,
southwest corner of ML Avenue and 6th Street. Miller Station,
also known as Miller, or Miller Point, was a place on the
Michigan Central Railroad (1913 atlas; 1916 topo; 1950 directory). |
| School District #10 |
Section 35, south side of Stadium Drive, some
west of 9th Street (Historic Preservation in Oshtemo Twp,
pp.91-94) |
| Balch School |
Section 36, northeast of the
intersection of N Avenue and 11th Street (1922/1950 topo) |
Sources used to compile this page:
- Atlas of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Chicago: H.
C. Maley, 1913.
- "First Hurd School; Cost $43, old records
reveal," Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 May 1934.
- Hultmark, Sarah. List of one-room schools still standing
in Kalamazoo County in 1982. Manuscript, Local History
Collection, Kalamazoo Public Library.
- O'Connor, Pamela Hall. Historic Preservation in
Oshtemo Township, Preservation Practices, 1997.
- "Slack School to close 2 grades," Kalamazoo
Gazette, 14 July 1938, page 13, column 7.
- USGS Topographic Maps for Kalamazoo County, 1916, 1922/1950.
- Directory of Teachers and School Officers, Kalamazoo
County, 1950-1951. Kalamazoo: County Board of
Education
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local
History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Updated 28
November 2005. |
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