Jack R. Westbrook and Sherry Sponseller are currently compiling a book on early Isabella County, Michigan one-room schools. They are searching for pictures of the schools, the students, and their teachers. The book will be titled, “Yesterday’s School Kids of Isabella County.”
The following list is made up of some of the one-room schools for which they are looking for photographs of the buildings, teachers and students:
- Broomfield Township: Griffin, Bundy, and Eldred schools.
- Chippewa Twp: Taylor, Landon, Newton, Chippewa, Merilatt, Cement & Riverside schools.
- Coe Township: Estee, Childs and Williams schools.
- Coldwater Township: Brown, Maple Grove and an as yet unnamed school in District 8.
- Deerfield Township: River Valley and Reynolds schools.
- Denver Township: Wise, Leaton, Polish, Maple Grove and Bader schools.
- Fremont Township: Rust-Hay school.
- Gilmore Township: Beech or Beach, Schofield and Hatfield schools
- Isabella Township: Spaulding, Whiteville and Jordan schools.
- Lincoln Township: Hoag, Irishtown, Root and South Lincoln schools.
- Rolland Township: Miller, Doxie and Remick schools.
- Union Township: Maple Hill and Phinisley schools.
- Vernon Township: Vernon Center, Lynch and Wilson schools.
- Wise Township: Herrick and Loomis schools.
Read more about this project in an article by Patricia Ecker in the April 26, 2009 edition of The Morning Sun.
I have some photos of school kids in front of the school in Horr.
231-629-1689 Dan Kent
You should contact my mother, Beverly Recker Jones, or my uncle Larry Recker to see if they have any photos for the school on Crawford Road in Lincoln Township. My mom’s number is 989 828-4870. I’m told that our family was instrumental in starting that school and I know they all attended school there.
Looking for info and pictures if any of Titus School located in section 19 of Lincoln Township in Isabella County, MI. I think my great great grandfather donated the land for it. His name was Samuel W. Titus.
Maple Hill school was on the NE corner of Whiteville and Bluegrass Rds. My family bought the acre of ground it was on and built our house on it in 1953. We bought the property from George and Betty Wheeler, both professors at CMU. Wheeler Hall is named after them. We used the same water well the school did until the late 1990’s. When the bus came to pick us up from Ganiard School in the ’50s everyone would yell “Maple Hill”. The Wheeler’s barn had Maple Hill painted on the side of it.