District No. 74, Square Lake

- 1896: District established. School started that year in Mr. T.H. Hillary's home for a month, until a wood building was erected Feb. of 1896. School lasted a month that year in that building.
- 1917: The building is destroyed by fire. Rumors spread that the fire was set off by a pro-German to protest World War I.
- 1918: The school is rebuilt, this time in brick.
- 1939: Walls are repainted.
- 1943: The school has one pupil left, and when the teacher failed to show up for school, and 2 more students arrived for school, the school closed.
- It was noted in the Gazette that for so young a district, the children's attendance was excellent as well as their school work.
- Originally, the district was apart of district 4, but kids in the western part found it hard to travel.
- The school was 30 ft. long, 12 ft. high and 20 ft. wide and painted white (the wood building).
- Enrollment in 1896: 23 students. In 1938: 12 students.
- There was known to be many conflicts between the townspeople and the school, more specifically the teacher.
- Consolidated into the Marine school district in the 1950s.