Towers School
Texas Township
Location: District #2 – Section 22, northwest corner of R Avenue and 8th Street. Burned September 1878, rebuilt on same site, reopened October 1878.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
Teachers
1877 Harry A. North (30 students)
1898 Nellie Shirley
1899 L.H. Fee
1922 Georgia W. Shaw
1925-26 Mabel Lawton
1927-28 Mabel Lawton
1929-31 Mrs. Arbutus Cobine
1931-34 Mrs. Nellie Weed
1934-35 Mrs. Maude Barnes
1935-36 Annabel Dannison
1936-40 Mrs. Susie Kaylor
1940-46 Mrs. Dola Guernsey
1946-47 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 22 June 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)
Articles
“School-house burned by an incendiary”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 September 1878, p.1, col. 5
“Texas” [decision to rebuild]
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 September 1878, page 1, column 4
“Texas”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 October 1878, page 5, column 3
“Texas”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 December 1878, page 4, column 3
“Texas. A cooking department in a district school”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 September 1889, page 4, column 4
“Texas”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 April 1899, page 8, column 1
Maps and atlases
USGS Topographic Map for Kalamazoo County, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, 5B, folder 37
Files
Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1925-1948 (title varies)
- Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)