Location: (District #5) - section 28, southwest corner of Owen Drive and 6th Street
The first Tamarack School was built in 1880 and may have gotten its name because it was built from tamarack logs, although it was called Gerald School on the 1918 topographic map. Supposedly it was built in another location and later moved to Owen Drive and 6th Street. If so, it was moved soon after it was built because it shows at the latter location in the 1890 atlas. The last building on that site appears to have been built about 1914. Closed in 1956 and converted to a private residence.
Teachers
1925-26 Rosa Norton - also taught at Alamo Center School
1927-28 Violet Stiff
1929-33 Fern A. Price
1933-34 Lawrence Chapman
1934-36 George Annable
1936-38 Bert Adams
1938-40 Marion Lewis
1940-41 Marion Lewis DeWinter
1941-42 Esther Lancaster
1942-43 Veronica Kailing - also taught at Hackley School
1943-44 Katherine Eash - also taught at Alamo Center and Alamo Valley Schools
1944-46 Marion E. Geis
1946-48 Ruth Reynolds - also taught at Hackley, Twin Lakes and Oak Grove Schools
1948-51 Mildred Clapp - also taught at Alamo Center School, and in Vicksburg, Texas Corners, Bangor and Mattawan.
1951-52 Linnie Smith
1952-55 Katherine Eash - also taught at Alamo Center and Alamo Valley Schools
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 7 March 2012.