Jug Corners School
Cooper Township
Location: District # 2 Fractional, Section 18, northeast corner of D Avenue and 12th Street.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1274.
Established about 1871. Original brick building torn down October 1878. Rebuilt on same site and reopened January 1879. Still standing in 2019.
Jug Corners School class ca1915
Teachers
1879 Miss Mary Walker
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 21 October 2021.
Sources
Books
Manual of the Public Schools of Kalamazoo County, Michigan for 1898-1899 J. W. Hazard, Commissioner of SchoolsEducation (Kalamazoo County)
Articles
“West Cooper”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 22 October 1878, p.1, col.7.
“West Cooper”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 31 December 1878, p.4, col.3.
“West Cooper”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 17 February 1880, p.1, col.6.
“West Cooper”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 10 March 1881, p.4, col.4.
“West Cooper”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 2 February 1882, p.4, col.3.
“West Cooper”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 16 April 1886, p.8, col.1.
“Old Jug Corners School perpetuates a failure”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 19 June 1949
“Factory that made but 1 jug gave Jug Corners name”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 31 July 1938, copy in Kalamazoo County Scrapbook #3, page 2.
Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 July 1938, page 5.
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 , 1925-54
Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)