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Local History

Texas Corners/Saunders School

Texas Township

Location: District #11 – Section 14, north side of Texas Drive, east of 8th 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-1294.

 

Does not appear in the 1910 atlas. Although it was closed at the time, it was referred to in the 1947-48 county school directory as Saunders School.

Teachers

1898 Irene Andrews
1921-22 Helen Mae Dunn
1925-26 Mrs. Vera Castner
1927-28 Bernice Rice
1929-31 Mable (sic) Lawton
1931-33 Mrs. Mildred Clapp
1933-35 M. Elizabeth Weed
1935-37 Mrs. Ella Middleton
1937-40 Mrs. Elizabeth French
1940-41 Margaret Kellogg
1941-48 Closed
1948-49 No longer listed in county school directory.

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

Sources

Books

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)

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, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quadrangle)

  • History Room topographic map case, drawer 5B, folder 37.
  • Shows as a symbol on this map but is not named

Files

Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22, 1925-1949 (title varies)

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

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