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The Posse Schoolhouse

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

This building sits between Ionia and Saranac in the Ionia State Recreation Area. It has Dist. No. 4 1898 over the door. It was the Section 34, Berlin Township, school and was built to replaces the Sessions School which was built across the road. Known as the “Posse House.” Deeded to Ionia County for use by the Sheriff’s Posse, it has a star painted on the front that reads “Ionia County Sheriff’s Posse Clubhouse”. I assume they use it as a staging area for riding horses through the recreation area.

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The Schoolhouse in Eden

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

The Township of Eden on the west side of the state located in Mason and Lake County is mostly rural farmland. I saw this old school house surrounded by the farm fields, like it is still waiting for students to come through the door. Carved in the stone above the door is Eden Dist No.2 1892. I grew up in the big city and so did my parents and grand parents. They walked to school and growing up in the 70’s I walked to and from school on days when the weather was decent. I could not imagine the kids walking to school in the winter with the winds howling across the empty farm fields. It’s not like they had busses and cars in the 1890’s. I suppose they could hitch up the horse to the wagon. I wonder if they had remote start on the horses back then.

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The Little Red Schoolhouse in Gladwin

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

East of downtown Gladwin is a historical village with old log cabins and a red schoolhouse. It was the Billings Township School District #2 school building. It was dismantled and transported in sections to the historical site after being donated to the Gladwin Historical Society in 1986. It stand alongside other donated buildings moved to the Gladwin Historical Village. The old schoolhouse now stands as a museum to show visitors of days gone by.

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Hope School

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

This little schoolhouse stands a few miles south of Hastings. From 1872 to 1963 Hope Township children attended school in this building, known as the Hinds School because of its location at the crossroads community of Hinds Corners. The school had stood vacant for almost twenty years when Robert Casey, a Hinds student during the 1930s, purchased it in 1981. Casey (1928-1997), a teacher here and in Hastings, restored the building as a place for children to visit.

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Fallasburg School

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in autumn, Schools .

The town of Fallasburg lies just east of the famous Fallasburg covered bridge north of Lowell. The school was built in 1867 and was used for almost a century until it closed in 1961. It is now a museum by the Fallasburg Historical Society. If you are ever in the area be sure to take a trip over the bridge and drive through the historic town. The bridge is featured on the cover of Volume 3 of my Lost In Michigan book series. A story of the historic town and bridge can be found in it also.

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The Old School

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

I saw this old school somewhere between Kingsley and Buckley south of Traverse City. I don’t know anything about it but it looks like it was a nice school at one time.

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The Schoolhouse Near The Mall

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

This old schoolhouse sits down the road from the Sparr Mall. I am not sure what its story is, but the sign on the front reads, Dist. No. 2 Dover. It looks as if someone is or was working on converting it into a home.

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The School At The Tip of the Thumb

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools, Thumb .

This large brick building stands along M-25 near the tip of the Thumb. Above the front door carved in stone are the words. GRINDSTONE CITY SCHOOL. I  have seen several one room schoolhouses around the Thumb, so I imagine when this building was built in the early 1900s, the citizens of Grindstone City were proud of it. I am not sure when it closed, but it is privately owned now.

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The Log Schoolhouse

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

I see a lot of old schoolhouses on my travels around the Great Lakes State but I have not seen many that are made from logs. The Becking School stands with a collection of historic log buildings in Bad Axe’s Pioneer Log Village. The Becking School was built in 1895 and the first teacher was Fred Linton who was paid $20.00 per month. It was moved to the log village in the 1980s along with the other buildings from around Huron County.

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Little River Schoolhouse

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

This old school house sits in School Section Lake Veterans Park. It is a Mecosta County park near the town of Mecosta.

Issac Berry was born a slave in 1831. He escaped from bondage in Missouri and made his way to freedom in Canada in 1858. There he married Lucy Millard. The Berrys moved to Morton Township in 1877 with other black and multi-racial families. They bought cutover land and Isaac served as the postmaster, blacksmith and school director. Lucy became the Little River Schools first teacher.

The original school was a one-room, log schoolhouse built in 1877. The current school still standing in the park was constructed in 1905. It was the local school and community center until 1935. The Berry family landscaped the property around the lake, including the beach, calling it Pleasant View. They sold it to Mecosta County for a park after Lucy Berry’s death.

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