Goodrich/Kent/Simmons/Elmrose School
Comstock Township
Location: District #9 – Section 32, west side of 28th Street north of MN Avenue.
Kalamazoo County 1873. Published by F. W. Beers. Local History Room
Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1284.
Apparently originally called Goodrich School, then as Kent. Called Simmons School in the 1947-55 county school directories, although Crosby’s memoir remembers it as Elmrose School for that period of time.
Teachers
1925-26 Bessie Force
1927-28 Dessa Carson
1929-32 Helen Hilles
1932-35 Melvina Hayes
1935-36 Mrs. Melvina Harper
1936-39 Marion Knobloch
1939-40 Mrs. Bess Goff
1940-42 Ruth E. Moran
1942-43 Mrs. Eileen Coleman
1943-44 Mrs. Agnes Maat
1944-55 Mrs. Alice Tolles
No longer listed in the directories. Probably absorbed into the Comstock Public Schools.
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 10 November 2021.
Sources
Books
Comstock District No. 9: A Memoir of a One-room School 1945-1953
- Crosby, Janet (Garrison)
- Kalamazoo, Michigan 2014
- H 977.417 C739
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
USGS topographic map for Kalamazoo County, 1918 (Galesburg Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, drawer 5A, folder 15
- Called Goodrich School on this map
USGS topographic map for Kalamazoo County, 1947 (Galesburg Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, drawer 5A, folder 15
- Called Kent School on this map
Files
Directory of teachers and school officers, Kalamazoo County, 1925-55
- Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)