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Local History

Pleasant Valley School

Prairie Ronde Township

Location: District #7 – Section 29, east side of 3rd Street between XY and Y Avenues.

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

Teachers

1921-22 R. Lyle Parker
1925-26 Grace Kline
1927-28 Mrs. Ella Nora Eaton
1929-30 Russel K. Eaton
1930-31 Mrs. Hazel Vose
1931-33 Harriette Barnes
1933-35 Russel Eaton
1935-36 Mrs. Margaret Rice
1936-37 Marion Hubbell
1937-39 Mrs. Marjorie Welcher
1939-41 Mrs. Vera Castner
1941-47 Closed
1947-48 Prairie Ronde Township schools no longer listed in the county directory.

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 12 May 2022.

Sources

Maps and atlases

USGS topographic map for Kalamazoo County, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quandrangle)

  • History Room topographic map case, drawer 5B, folder 37

Files

Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22, 1925-1948 (title varies)

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