Local History

Pavilion Center School

Pavilion Township

Location: District #4 – Section 21, west side of junction of Q Avenue and 29th Street.

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-1275

 

Founded in 1868. When it closed in 1965, it was the last one-room school in Kalamazoo County.

Teachers

1898 F. C. Grover
1921-23 Claire Bailey
1925-26 Mabel J. Han
1927-28 Mrs. Laura Kinney
1929-30 Alice Brainard
1930-32 Leola Bigley
1932-33 Charles Carroll
1933-34 Mary Cagney
1934-36 Mrs. Lillian Gorsline
1936-37 Mrs. Bertha Talmadge
1937-38 Rory McIntyre
1938-39 Mrs. Alzadah Borough
1939-42 Mrs. Ruth Amey
1942-44 Mrs. Helen Courtney
1944-46 Mrs. Susie Osterhout
1946-47 Mrs. Edith Cosgrove
1947-48 Mrs. Esther Chapman
1948-49 Mrs. Marian Wheater
1949-50 Beverly Sager
1951-54 Patricia Riley
1954-63 Mrs. Cora L. Flora

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. List of teachers compiled by Lisa Frazier, KPL Intern, February 2017. Last updated 6 April 2022.

Sources

Books

A history of Pavilion #4 School (1868-1965)

  • The Pavilion #4 School Reunion Committee
  • Climax, MI : Crescent Publishing Company, 1998
  • H 977.417 H673

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.

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 (Leonidas Quadrangle)

  • History Room topographic map case, drawer#1B, folder 23.

Files

Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22, 1925-1963 (title varies)

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