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| District formed | 1864 |
| Years schools built | 1866 |
| General location | "Twelve miles from Stillwater, eleven miles from St. Paul, five miles from Lake Elmo and about eight miles from Cottage Grove and Afton." - Stillwater Gazette |
| Modern address | located at 1800 St. John Drive in Woodbury. |
| District boundaries | Western boundary was a couple miles east of the border of Ramsey County and the eastern border was near present-day Highway 95. |
| Disposition | now a storage building (also the Trail Riders Saddle Club meeting place) |
| Memories: | "Rural schools
developed the idea that we teach the whole child, not just a subject."
-Harriet Palm Lee "Sometimes when the weather was real bad and the snow too deep for cars, the parents would hitch up their team of horses to a big sled and bring the children to school that way." -Lorraine Nelson |
| Notes: | *Most of the poeple in this area were of German descent and there was a German school near this public school site. *"One winter when the German school was closed, the enrollment at the district was over sixty." - Stillwater Gazette *District consolidated with Stillwater and St. Paul Park schools in 1956. |
Known Teachers:
| 1864-5: Eliza Emerson (resigned-illness),
Nellie White (finished term) 1876-7: David Gross 1938-9: Thelma Olson 1939-40: Thelma Olson 1941-2: Harriet Palm Lee |
| Other teachers: Mrs. Agnes Partridge, (the rest before 1898) Anton Rode, Emma Swanson, Lorenz Kruse, Sarah Noltimeier, Almo Strate Thomspon, Phoebe Hoenslin, Renata Franzman Thiel, Gertrude Augstin Bielenberg, Viola Picullel Nickelson, Mrs. Helen Schultz, Margery Knapp, Mrs. Lillian Bowell, Mary Skeffington Urtel. |