Deming School / Brick School

Cooper Township


Location: (District #1) – Section 11, southeast corner of B Avenue and Riverview Drive.

Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room

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Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1269.

 

Formerly known as Brick School. Closed at the end of the 1943-44 school year.

Teachers

1898 Eva Jackson
1922 Myrl Haskins
1925-26 Carrie Barney
1927-28 Carrie Barney
1929-31 Alice Crane
1931-32 Alice Crane Bingham
1932-36 Viola Crane
1936-40 Alice Bingham
1940-42 Lois Klein
1942-44 Wilma Ryder

Sources

Manuscripts

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

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

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)

Articles

“Rural schools break records in attendance”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 January 1923, page 13, column 2.
Copy in Education (Kalamazoo County) Scrapbook #1, page 1.

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, 1925-50

  • Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)