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Berrien County Rural Schools

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NEW: PICTURES below this chart! If you have a school picture and would like to submit it for this page, please send it through the CONTACT link above. Highlighted school names are pictured below the table. Brenda Sears

Antoik - Berrien #2  Elm Valley - Weesaw #8  North Shore - Benton #2 
Arden - Royalton #5 Eureka - Pipestone #1 Oak Forrest - Bertrand #9
Avery - Three Oaks #1 Evans - Lincoln #4 Oak Grove - Berrien #7
Bacon - Royalton #4 Fairland - Niles #21 Olive Branch - Galien #7
Bainbridge - Bainbridge #7 Fairplain - Benton #5 Painter - Berrien #12
Bakertown - Bertrand #7  First - Pipestone #7 Painter - Weesaw #7
Bard - Benton #10 Forrest - Bertrand #5 Pearl - Benton #3
Barnhardt - Niles #10 Forrest Hill - Bertrand #9 Penn Yan - Bainbridge #3
Baroda - Baroda #2 Franklin - Berrien #2 Pier - Hagar #5
Baroda - Lake #2 Galien Township - Galien #5 Pollywog - Bertrand #9
Basswood - Three Oaks #1 Gard - St. Joseph #1 Pucker Street - Berrien #20
Batton - Galien #8 Gardner - Weesaw #4 Pyle - Weesaw #6
Beaver Dam - Galien #3 Germany - New Buffalo #4 Range Line - Niles #9
Bedinger - Oronoko #6 Geyer - Niles #14 River - Sodus #5
Bell #48 - Niles #2 Gitchell - Bertrand #10 Riverside - Hagar #6
Berrien Springs #52 - Oronoko #1 Glendora - Weesaw #1 Riverside - Chikaming #3
Bertrand - Niles #4 Gray - Coloma #3 Royal - Royalton #3
Boyer - Bainbridge #6 Hand - Berrien #3 Ruggles - Baroda #3
Boynton - Benton #14 Harbert - Chikaming #4 St. Joseph Valley - Niles #21
Brandywine Jr. High - Niles #2 Hatfield - Niles #8 St. Joseph Valley - Berrien #4
Bridgman - Lake #7  Hathaway - Lake #8 Sawyer - Chikaming #2
Brick - Bainbridge #4 Hills - Baroda #1 Shanghai - Pipestone #3
Brick - Niles #13 Hills Corners - Weesaw #1 Shawnee - Oronoko #7
Broceus - Buchanan #3 Hinchman - Oronoko #2 Sleepy Hollow - Niles #7
Brong - Weesaw #4 Holbrook - New Buffalo #3 Sodus - Sodus #2
Bronson - Bertrand #12 Holmes - Bertrand #20 Sorter - Benton #4
Brown - St. Joseph #2 Hollywood - Royalton #6 South - Galien #7
Browntown - Chikaming #6 Howe - Bertrand #6 South Lincoln - Lincoln #5
Buckhorn - Royalton #5 Hull - Benton #6 Spinks Corners - Bainbridge #5
Bundy - Hagar #1 (Opened 1844) Indian Hills - Buchanan #8 Spring Brook - New Buffalo #3
Burg - Bainbridge #12 Ingraham - Coloma #4 Spring Creek - Three Oaks #1
Burke - Oronoko #4 I. X. L. - Pipestone #11  Stanley - Benton #7
Burke - Pipestone #16 Johnson - Benton #8 Stevensville - Lincoln #6
Byers - Bainbridge #8 Kansas - Bertrand #2 Stewart - Lincoln #2
California - Lake #5 Kelsev - Buchanan #7 Stickney - Watervliet #5
Cedar Lane - Niles #12 Knight - Oronoko #3 Stump - Sodus #13
Center - Bainbridge #7 Lafayette - Benton #9 Tabor - Sodus #6
Chadwick - Sodus #1 Lakeshore - Benton #2 Thompson - Niles #6
Chikaming - Consolidated #39 Lakeside - Chikaming #1 Tryon - Royalton #2
Clymer - Coloma #8 Lamb - Bertrand #8 Union Pier - New Buffalo #5
Collins - Pipestone #15 Landon - Baroda #4 Wagner - Buchanan #5
Coloma - Coloma #1 LaSalle - Berrien #11 Waldron - Galien #7
Columbia - Pipestone #4 Liberty - Berrien #11 Walnut - New Buffalo #2
Colvin - Buchanan #6  Long Lake - Berrien #1 Washington - Coloma #7
Coveney - Buchanan #4 Maple Grove South - Berrien #8 Wilson - Galien #7
Cowles - Sodus #15 Maple Grove North - Berrien #9  Wilson - New Buffalo #4
Cribbs - Bainbridge #2 Martindale - Benton #12 Winkler - Niles #4
Currier - Bertrand #8 Matchett Peak - Niles #11 Witherel - Royalton #1
Curtis - Hagar #2 Mead - Niles #5 Womer - Bertrand #4
Dayton - Bertrand #1 Millburg - Benton #1 Yellow Mill - Niles #3
DeMott - Niles #9 Miller - Buchanan #2 St. Paul's Lutheran- Stevensville
Dutch Corners - Bertrand #3 Mt. Pleasant - Sodus #4 Lutheran - Bridgman
Eaman - Hagar #4 Mt. Tabor - Oronoko #5  Lutheran - Sawyer
Eau Claire - Pipestone #10 National - Berrien #5 S. D. A.* - Berrien Springs
Eaton - Weesaw #5 New Troy - Weesaw #3 Lutheran - Berrien Springs
Electric Light - Niles #3 North Lincoln - St. Joseph #3 Lutheran - Glendora
*S. D. A. - Seventh Day Adventist

The above picture is Center School, Bainbridge Township, Berrien County, MI, circa late 1920s

Submitted by Linda Reineberg-Gonzalez: http://www.reinebergfamily.com

Bottom row (left to right) Victor Vinton, Harold Rickerman, Dean McMann, Phillip Lee, Lester James.

Second row (left to right) Kathryn Hampton, Elizabeth Krumm, Margaret Hampton, Anna Loush, Warren Straub, Vera James, Edward Krumm.

Back row (left to right) Henry Krumm, Stanley Dickey, Donald McMann, Dorothy McMann, Leona Strauf, Orville Roundy, Teacher is Gladys James.

Linda Reineberg-Gonzalez mother is Margaret Hampton Reineberg, her aunt is Kathryn Hampton Lozmack.

The picture above is Mrs. Hackett class of abt 1931 at Stickney School (Watervliet #5). It was submitted by Mrs. Twilla Brooks, she is in the 2nd row, 3rd child (left to right), her brother Richard Brooks is next to her. According to Mrs Brooks, the teacher is Mrs. Hackett, she also remembers some students in this class: The names are incomplete but she remembers surnames Long, Beasley, Schoonover (sp) and remembers Calvin Bama, Corlas(sp) Bama, Wanda Lavely, Gordon Vandresick, Rayna and June Phillips, Gloria Gunn and Ila Dolittle. If you can identify children in this photo, contact me and I will list them here. Thanks again to Twilla Brooks and her son Timothy McCoy for this submission.

The above picture is Eureka School, (Pipestone #1) Pipestone Township, abt 1890. The little girls with the necklaces in the front row are Reba and Anna Gardner now Anna Sommer. Thanks to Cindy (Howard) Murphy for submitting the 3 pictures of Eureka School. If you can identify others in these pictures contact Brenda Sears at berriengenealogy@hughes.net

 

The picture above is also Eureka School, (Pipestone #1) Pipestone Township, 1890s(?), Anna and Reba Gardner are also in this picture, they are in the middle row, 5th (Anna) and 6th (Reba) from left to right.

Eureka School, Pipestone Twp, Berrien Co., MI - April 11, 1900 Anna, Reba & Hugh Gardner are in this picture. Middle row, Anna is 3rd from the left, Reba is 4th from the left and brother Hugh is on the end, standing in the dark sweater.

The following three schools are Riverside School / Hagar #6, submitted by Kirk Vandenberg. Kirk also submitted a list of students and is uncertain which students/picture the list identifies. If you can assist in identifying the students, contact Brenda. The list reads:

1st (Row?): Ed LaViolette, Joe Virgo, Erick Noach, Herb Chabot, Hulda Storick, (Benny Marsala), Lila Frazee, Mabel Merrill, Anna(? hard to read) Marsala, Teacher Eva Paul, Edna Storick

2nd (Row?): Sam Pecoraro, Alfred Chabot, Johnny Frazee, Gladys Elston, Joyce Elson (Elston?), Dorothy Denning, James Hickey, Sophie Frazee, Marie Chabot, Winifred Denning, Fern Elson (Elston?), Irma Kittell, Frances Moshier, Charlie Frazee, Will Chabot, Lee Merrill

3rd (Row?): Mary Pecararo, Katherine Denning, Audi Elston, Emmogene Merrill, Charlie LaViolette, Tina Virgo, Winfired Tousain, Evelyn Moshier, Edith Schaus.

The arrow in the picture below points to James Hickey, grandfather of Kirk Vandenberg. Kirk's great grandmother Mary Jane Broderick Hickey taught at Hagar #6

The following picture of the school in the distance was taken from the James Hickey farm. Copyright Kirk Vandenberg

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