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Local History

Pine Island School

Texas Township

Location: District #10 – Section 17, north side of Q Avenue, east of 3rd Street.

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

There were no teachers listed for Pine Island School in any of the county school directories for 1921-22 and 1925 through 1947. It is likely that there were too few students in the district to warrant hiring a teacher. What few there were probably attended another school as tuition students. The district ceased to be listed in the directories at all beginning in the 1947-48 directory and was probably formally absorbed into another district at that time.

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 24 November 2021.

Sources

Maps and atlases

USGS Topographic Map 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, 1925-1948 (title varies)

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

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