I saw this old school house somewhere between Bad Axe and Ubly. I can only assume it was an old school since there is a swing set next to it.
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Hidden among the trees and snow is an old brick schoolhouse I saw not far from the small town of Eagle. Researching the internets I found out that it is or was Brown School. It was built in 1910 to replace a log cabin school that was built in 1837 that had burned down in a fire. The town and township that it resides in were named after Eagle Falls New York where the early settlers came from. Revolutionary War veteran Joshua Simmons II is laid to rest in the town’s cemetery.
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I saw this old schoolhouse in the community of Loomis east of Clare near U.S.-10. The town was originally named Buchtel with A station on the Pere Marquette railroad and post office. The name changed in 1871 when Erastus G. Loomis, George W. Wise and E. F. Gould built a sawmill and general store and platted the village. Wise Township that Loomis is located in, is named after George W. Wise.
It’s another bone-chilling cold day in Michigan and my daughter is home from school. As soon as the decision is made to cancel school I get an email and a phone call on my camera phone. When I was a kid I remember having to listen to the radio waiting for the DJ to read off a list of schools. Back then they did not have computers to alphabetize the list so they would read them in the order the cancellations came in. Since I went to a school in the city it was one of the last schools to close. Most of the rural districts closed first so everytime they read the list I would have to wait until the end to see if my school was closed. ” dang it, it’s not closed yet” I guess I will have to listen to John Cougar’s Jack and Diane and then hopefully they will read the list again. I figure back in the olden days they went to school because they had no way of telling them not to.
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The Sessions Schoolhouse is the oldest cobblestone schoolhouse still standing in Michigan and possibly the oldest one-room schoolhouse in the state. The School was built in 1847 with local fieldstone by Alanzo Session, a New York school teacher who moved to the Ionia area. He built the school on his property to educate the local children. Session’s house is gone, but the old schoolhouse still stands in the northern part of the Ionia State Recreation Area.
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The ruins of this two-story schoolhouse stand along the road in rural Mason County watching the farmers work the fields. Above the entrance is a carved stone that reads: FERN SCHOOL DIST. 3 1906. It’s all that remains of the town of Fern. The town was built around a sawmill owned by J.S. Adams in Eden Township. A station was built on the Mason and Oceana railroad in 1886 and in 1888 It was given a post office. I am not sure why it was named Fern, but the town must have prospered to build a two-story brick schoolhouse, considering most of the school houses I see left standing are simple single-story wooden structures. A year after the school was built the town’s post office closed. Probably because the Post Office switched to its rural free delivery system. After the timber was gone, the mill must have closed along with the train depot, since there is no longer any tracks running near the old forgotten school. The school closed in 1959 and it stands eerily empty remembering the days when the children of Fern came to visit.
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Last week I got to Lakeview a little early for my presentation and I had some time to kill. I went for a drive to see what I could find on a dreary autumn day. Southwest of Lakeview I saw this old schoolhouse hidden in the trees. I am not sure how I manage to come across these places unexpectedly, but I figure I should photograph them before they are lost to history. I looked on an old plat map and it shows a South Baker School. I am not certain it is this school, but maybe.
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The West Dayton District No. 2 schoolhouse located at the Mayville History Museum on M24. I find a lot of old schoolhouses located all around the state. As far as I know, none are being used for daily school but I have found some that have been moved and saved by historical societies. Although the school kids don’t show up every day to this school with their lunch buckets, it’s nice to see they it was saved so school kids can go on a field trip to little old school house. It’s still teaching kids and sharing knowledge by telling stories of the past.
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I was heading back home to Saginaw after taking some pics in Clio. I did not want to take the same way back home down I75 or Dixie so instead, I went east a couple of miles then turned north figuring if I got lost I would eventually hit M46, and then I could take that into Saginaw. I got to a point where a sign told me to turn left to Frankenmuth, and while I was thinking about it for a second, I could see down the road what looked like a town in the distance. I headed straight into the town of Tuscola, and then I saw this grand old building towering up like an elder statesmen looking over the town. I am not sure if it was a school, a church or what it was since it has a barn door on the front, but whatever it was, it sure was striking and I had to stop and take a photo. I am glad I decided to take a different way home.
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I found this little red school house while traveling along M55 south of Lake Cadillac. The sign out front said Hector School 1908, and it was the Clam Lake District No.5 School. Other than that, I could not find anything else about it, but I had to stop and get a pic of the little red school house.
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I got a call last week from Andrew at the Tuscola County Advertiser after seeing my photos of the old North Grove School that sits empty between Caro and Mayville. He was writing a story about it, and wanted to know what I knew about the school, and why I took a photo of it. Sadly, I did not know any of the history of the school, but I took a photo of it because it looked like something that needed some love and attention. Thanks to Andrew I do know the history of the school, and if you want to read his article you can do it HERE
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