Jickling/Chenery School
Comstock Township
Location: District #5 – Section 5, northeast corner of H Avenue and 26th Street.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1268.
Later known as Chenery School. The school appears to have closed after the 1949-50 school year.
Teachers
1921-22 Iva D. Slater
1925-28 Cornelia Koster
1929-31 Mrs. Bernice Bissell
1931-43 Mrs. Floy Foreman
1943-44 Mrs. Violet Smith and Mrs. Florence Arnett
1944-45 Mrs. Violet Smith and Mrs. Marilyn Goff
1945-46 Mrs. Violet Smith and Mrs. Clara Baker
1946-49 Mrs. Dola Guernsey
1949-50 Mrs. Frances Johnson
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. List of teachers compiled by Lisa Frazier, KPL intern. Last updated 11 November 2021.
Sources
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 (Kalamazoo Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, drawer 7A, folder 21A.
Files
Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22, 1925-1950 (title varies)
- Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)