Coleman School
Oshtemo Township
Location: District #9 – Section 21, east side of 4th Street between L and KL Avenues.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1298.
Known as DeWaters School in 1884.
Closed at the end of the 1945-46 school year.
Teachers
1925-26 Grace Stevens
1927-28 Edith Cosgrove
1929-30 Candace Peterson
1930-31 Gaylen Cronk
1931-32 Elva Buntaine
1932-44 Georgia Shaw
1944-45 Willis Hunting
1945-46 Lois M. Krieger
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 26 October 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
Directory of teachers and school officers, Kalamazoo County, 1925-55
- Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)