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Texas Corners School

Rural Schools of Kalamazoo County > Texas Township

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Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1294.
Location: District #11 - Section 14, north side of Texas Drive, east of 8th Street.

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

1925-26 Mrs. Vera Castner

1927-28 Bernice Rice

1929-31 Mable (sic) Lawton

1931-33 Mrs. Mildred Clapp

1933-35 M. Elizabeth Weed

1935-36 Mrs. Lillian Allen

1936-37 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 7 June 2017.

Sources

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 map case, left shelf #1
  • Shows as a symbol on this map but is not named

Files

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

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