Brick/Harsha School
Schoolcraft Township
Location: District #2 – Section 2, northeast corner of U Avenue and Portage Road. Built in 1852.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
This school was later known as Harsha School and was closed after the 1943-44 school year.
Teachers
Schoolcraft Dist. 2 schoolhouse, c.1927.
1921-22 Closed
1925-26 Closed
1927-28 Closed (Miss Vera Castner)
1929-30 Mrs. Jeanette Streeter
1930-33 Mrs. Marian H. Fulton
1933-34 Fern Lambeck
1934-35 Mrs. Janette Streeter
1935-41 Mrs. Florence Stoltz
1941-42 Mrs. Eleanor Burdick
1942-44 Mrs. Blanch Harsha
1944-47 Closed
1947-48 No longer listed in county school directories.
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 24 May 2022.
Sources
Articles
“Schoolcraft District 2 School, Built in 1852, Oldest in County”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 November 1927, p.8, col. 2.
Maps and atlases
USGS Topographic Maps for Kalamazoo County, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, drawer 5B, folder 37
- Brick School has been misidentified as Gourdneck Prairie School on this map.
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)