Brady School / Harper School / School No.3
Brady Township
Location: District #3 – Section 26, east side of 32nd Street between XY and YZ Avenues.
(Originally located at the southwest corner of 31st Street and East Y Avenue. Later relocated on 32nd Street.)
In 1918 (1873 and 1890) this shows in section 27 on the west side of 32nd Street as School No. 3.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
“In the winter of 1839-40 a school was taught, probably by Harrison Whaley, in a log house built for a dwelling by a man named Brooks. The building had been vacated and was utilized for a temporary school-house. A log school building was erected about 1841-42, near the present residence of J.M. Beebe, on a knoll which was known as ‘Mount Zion,’ the ‘Hill of Science,’ etc., and was used a number of years. This school-house was the scene of many lively occurrences in the ‘pioneer days.’”
—History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Durant, Samuel W. Everts & Abbott, publ. 1880
Kalamazoo County 1861, Published by Geil & Harley. Library of Congress
Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c.1981, History Room Photo File P-1282
Teachers
1898 Inez Snover
1921-22 Maurice Miller
1925-26 Joe Hopkins
1927-28 Thelma Faleon
1929-30 Mrs. Letha Munn
1930-33 Mrs. Anna Worthington
1933-35 June Prolo
1935-40 Miriam F. Pearson
1940-42 Pauline Klein
1942-46 Mrs. Ruth Brainard
1946-47 Mrs. Roberta Savage
1947-48 Brady Township schools no longer listed in county school directories. Presumably they were absorbed into a larger district.
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 14 June 2022.
Sources
Books
Manual of the Public Schools of Kalamazoo County, Michigan for 1898-1899
J. W. Hazard, Commissioner of Schools
Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, Printers, 1898
History Room Orange Dot File: Education (Kalamazoo County)
Manuscripts
List of one-room schools still standing in Kalamazoo County in 1982
Hultmark, Sarah.
Manuscript, Local History Collection, Kalamazoo Public Library
Maps and atlases
Map of Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Geil & Harley, Philadelphia. 1861
History Room atlas case, left shelf #2
Atlas of Kalamazoo County, Michigan from Recent and Actual Surveys and Records
F. W. Beers & Co., New York. 1873
Library of Congress
Illustrated atlas of Kalamazoo County [Michigan] with early and present history of Kalamazoo County
Sauer, William C.
Wm. C. Sauer, Detroit. 1890
History Room atlas case, left shelf #1
USGS topographic maps for Kalamazoo County, 1918 (Leonidas Quadrangle)
History Room topographic map case, drawer 1B, folder 23
Files
Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22, 1925-1948 (title varies)
Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)