Drake/Lindbergh School

Rural Schools of Kalamazoo County > Kalamazoo Township

Location: Section 19, north side of Michigan Avenue, east of Drake Road.

Drake School was renamed Lindbergh School, presumably after aviator Charles Lindbergh, sometime after 1928. It was replaced by a new building “near the US-131 bridge” in the mid-1950s and was annexed to the Kalamazoo Public Schools in 1957.

 

 

 

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 6 June 2013.

Sources

Maps and atlases

USGS topographic maps for Kalamazoo County, 1918 (Kalamazoo Quadrangle)

  • History Room map case, left drawer #1

Plat book of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

  • Wheaton, Glen C.
  • Rockford, IL: Thrift Press, Map Makers, 1928.
  • History Room atlas case, left shelf #1

Files

History Room Subject File: Kalamazoo Public Schools: Lindbergh School