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Local History

Oshtemo Township

Balch School

Location: District #2 Fractional – Section 36, northeast of the intersection of N Avenue and 11th Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Teachers 1925-26 Lura Hall…

Buckhout School

Location: District #5 – northwest corner of 2nd Street and H Avenue. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Buckhout School, 1931. Photo courtesy of Roxanne Fritz.…

Chamberlin School / Hurd School

Location: District #3 – Section 14, north side of M43 between 7th and 9th Streets. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c.…

Coleman School

Location: District #9 – Section 21, east side of 4th Street between L and KL Avenues. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Photo by Sarah Hultmark,…

Findley School

Location: Section 23, north side of KL Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist,…

Garrison School

Location: District 3 Fractional – Section 5, southwest corner of G Avenue and 3rd Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room After the 1954-55 school year,…

Liberty School

Location: District #4 Fractional – Section 3, southeast corner of G Avenue and 7th Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Liberty Street School, undated. Photo…

Liberty Street School, undated

Photo courtesy of Alamo Township Museum The cross over the door suggests that the building was being used as a church, which probably dates it to after 1960.

Miller Station School

Location: District #14 – Section 28, originally on the north side of West ML Avenue, west of South 6th Street. Moved across the road in 1904 to the southwest corner…

Potter School

Location: District #7 – Section 3, north side of H Avenue between 6th and 9th Streets. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Teachers 1922 Mary E.…

School District #10

Location: Section 35, south side of Stadium Drive, 800 feet west of 9th Street. Kalamazoo County 1873. Published by F. W. Beers. Local History Room Oshtemo School No.10. 2017 photo by…

Slack School

Location: District #8 Fractional – Section 19, northeast corner of KL Avenue and Almena Road. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c.…

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