This photo appeared in the October 12, 1898 Stillwater Gazette (weekly edition), part of the "Our County Public Schools Series" column. (See that issue for a detailed history of the school district up to that time.)
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District formed | 1855 |
Years schools built | 1856 (burned 1859); 1859; 1866; 1877 (about 22 X 30 feet in size) |
General location | 1856 school was built SW part of sect. 1; 1866 school was built in the northern part of sect. 2; 1877 school was built in the NW cor. sect. 12 |
Modern address | 110th Street and Lansing Avenue in the City of Grant |
District boundaries | Northern part of Grant and parts of the south halves of Oneka and Marine. The district boundaries were redrawn in 1877. |
Disposition | residence |
Notes | *When the schoolhouse burned in 1859, the windows, doors and books were salvageable. It only took a week and a half to rebuild the school, with the help of the community. *Consolidated with surrounding districts in 1950s. |
Known Teachers
1855: | Joseph Cram |
Pre-1897: | W. W. Hall |
Eva Smith | |
Nellie Jackman | |
Emma McHattie | |
Mary Jenks | |
1897: | Alice Soule |
1899: | Mary Frances Carli |
1900-1909: | Amos Hill |
1922: | Irene Carroll |
1928: | Freida Franzmann |
1929: | Alice McCarthy |
1930: | Inez Hayes |