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Rural
Schools Kalamazoo County
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The building that formerly housed Comstock
Fractional School #1, May 2000. Photo courtesy of Margean
Gladysz.
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Once there were six or eight one-room schools in every township.
They are still fondly remembered by area residents, but all have
disappeared under the pressure of expanding population, improved
roads and transportation, and consolidation of school districts.
Some of the buildings still stand, in use as private homes, churches
or shops.
Information about some of these schools is difficult to find.
These pages are a preliminary effort to identify the rural schools that
existed in Kalamazoo County and to create histories for them. Schools
are arranged alphabetically by township, and then by section number.
If you do not know the township of a school, check the alphabetical
index.
Additional information will be added to these pages as time and resources
allow. If you have information to share, or photos that you would
let us copy, please call Beth Timmerman at 269-553-7842,
or send us an email. Short citations
for each school appear in parentheses after the information about
that school. A complete list of sources
used to compile this site appears at the end of each township page.
For further information, we suggest these
sources:
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local
History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Updated 10
October
2007.
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