Rural Schools - Oshtemo Township

Rural Schools of Kalamazoo County

 

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Updated and mapped October 2008

Sources

Articles

"First Hurd School; Cost $43, old records reveal"

  • Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 May 1934

"Slack School to close 2 grades"

  • Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 July 1938, page 13, column 7

Manuscripts

List of one-room schools still standing in Kalamazoo County in 1982

  • Hultmark, Sarah
  • Manuscript, Local History Collection, Kalamazoo Public Library

Other Sources

Atlas of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

  • Chicago: H. C. Maley, 1913

Historic Preservation in Oshtemo Township

  • O'Connor, Pamela Hall
  • Preservation Practices, 1997

USGS Topographic Maps for Kalamazoo County, 1916, 1922/1950

Directory of Teachers and School Officers, Kalamazoo County, 1950-1951

  • Kalamazoo: County Board of Education