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Local History

Miller Station School

Oshtemo Township

Location: District #14 – Section 28, originally on the north side of West ML Avenue, west of South 6th Street. Moved across the road in 1904 to the southwest corner of ML Avenue and 6th Street to accommodate the rerouted Michigan Central Railroad line. Schoolhouse burned in 1916 and was rebuilt.

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

Miller Station, also known as Miller, was a place on the Michigan Central Railroad. The school was annexed into the Oshtemo school district in 1954, and closed after the 1953-54 school year. For additional details, see our web site Miller’s Station: Ghost Town in Western Kalamazoo County.

Miller Station School
Miller Station School, courtesy, Ilah Henderson

Teachers

1877-78 Giles A. Crane
1879 Lotta Clarke
1880 Arthur Strong
1881 Fanny Sherwood
1882 Jas. H. McLaughlin, Jr.
1893 Mary Shaw
1898 Louise E. White
1899 closed
1900 Alice Webster
1901 Ida Huggert, Pearl Lillie
1902 Bessie Reynolds
1903 Wesley Clapp
1905 George Albertson
1906 J.H. McLaughlin
1907 Mabel Rix
1908 Frank E. Miller
1910 Grace Church
1916-17 Mary White
1925-26 Eliza Kucks
1927-28 Estella Buckham
1929-31 Georgia Shaw
1931-36 Molly Smith
1936-42 Mable Lawton
1942-43 Thelma Vanderhoff
1943-45 Mable Lawton
1945-46 closed
1946-48 Mable Lawton
1948-49 Dorothy Boot
1949-50 Edith L. Choate
1951-52 Edith Schreer
1952-54 Ruth Sheppard

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Photo added September 2021. Last updated 2 November 2021.

Sources

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)

Maps and atlases

Atlas of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

  • Chicago: H. C. Maley, 1913
  • H 912.77417 K1410
  • History Room atlas case, left shelf #1

USGS topographic map for Kalamazoo County, 1916 (Kalamazoo Quadrangle)

  • History Room topographic map case, drawer 7A, folder 21A

Files

Directory of teachers and school officers, Kalamazoo County, 1925-1955

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

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