Sunday, September 7, 2025

Off to school

 This week's prompt is "Off to school." I decided to post some pictures I found that are school related. These were all found by my dad in my aunt Toni's house. If anyone has any insight to any of the photos, please comment down below.

Up first is this one room school house. Back in the day, all country schools looked like this. One teacher, numerous students in different grades. I don't know how the teachers did it, but they did.

Michigan one room school house


2nd grade Allegan


Dawson school

Effie Carlotta Madden. High School graduation 1886




 

Mildred Bellinger High school diploma 1918



My 5th grade class picture






Blackman school reunion 2005

There you have it. Class pictures through time. :)

2 comments:

  1. Glad those pictures survived. I wish we had taken pictures of our one room school, the Wright

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    1. I may have a picture of it somewhere. Either the original building, or the almost torn down version. Dad said he found a book about the schools in Allegan. He's bringing it back for me.

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