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Cobb School

Schoolcraft Township


Location: District #1 Fractional – Section 5, north side of U Avenue east of 14th 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-1299

 

Teachers

1921-22 Zelda Forsyth
1922-23 Grace L. Kersten
1925-26 Mildred Mead
1927-28 Hazel M. Fox
1929-30 Mrs. Eleanor Burdick
1930-32 Mrs. Hazel Shug
1932-34 Pauline Chamberlain
1934-36 School closed
1936-38 Mrs. Ellen Hoyt
1938-42 Mrs. Blanche Harsha
1942-43 School closed

Sources

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 Maps for Kalamazoo County, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quadrangle)

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

Files

Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22, 1925-1943 (title varies)

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

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