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Local History

Buckhout School

Oshtemo Township

Location: District #5 – northwest corner of 2nd Street and H Avenue.

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

buckhoutschool_598 — Buckhout School, 1931. Photo courtesy of Roxanne Fritz.

Closed in 1938 and apparently never re-opened.

Teachers

1925-26 Estelle Buckham
1927-28 Belma Little
1929-30 Violet Stiff
1930-36 Hester Thompson
1936-37 Maude Ritchie
1937-38 Richard Wiersma

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 8 July 2014.

Sources

Files

Directory of teachers and school officers, Kalamazoo County, 1925-51

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