Three Oaks Township Schools
Avery Grade School
Located in Section 1 of Three
Oaks Township
| 1844 brought the first school house built for teaching in the area. It was Known as "Cherry Log School" Located Donner Road & Three Oaks Rd in Three Oaks Township |
1847 "Spring Creek School" came into being "Spring Creek Grade School AKA Cherry School Located Donner Road & Three Oaks Rd in Three Oaks Township |
| 1854 brought "Log School" - in the Village of
Three Oaks present day location would have been Elm and Ash Streets. |
1857 wood frame school house replaced the "Log School" house. |
| 1860 - Avery Grade School Located in Section 1 of Three Oaks Township |
1864 - Basswood Grade School Located US 12 & Basswood Road in Three Oaks Township - School Closed in 1938 when Three Oaks Elementary and High School came into existance. 1893 - Teacher - Miss. Waty Ludlum later Mrs Waty Ludlum Daniels |
| 1866 North School came in to being. (wood frame) |
1867 - West School - brick material used to build school |
| 1877 Brick School was commenced and addition added in 1896. In 1919 school was unfortunately destroyed. |
1879 "Spring Creek" brick school house completed |
| 1921 Three Oaks school was built of brick and a gymnasium added in 1936 Classes were offered from 1921 to 1968 when Three Oaks and New Troy schools combined to make River Valley High school. |
Three Oaks High School
1902
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Three Oaks High School
1905 Graduates
Submitted by: Sue Langley
at suewylan@gmail.com
| Back Rows l to r: - a total of 57 students are in this photo. |
Nina L. Ransom: Principal |
| Martha Bratt, Prof. | W. H. Woodley, Superintendent |
| Lee Heckman | Edward Steck |
| Ray Harner | Paul Beeson |
| Floyd Paddock | Ammi Hibner |
| Hale Crosby | Warren Ellison |
| William Rynearson | |
| Second Row | |
| Bert Rynearson | John Duncan |
| Gertrude Sandee (Macmanamon) | Bessie Barnes (Lee) |
| Nelly Westlake | Ethel McGawn (Buchanan) |
| Florence Houser (Cadwell) | Lois Beeson (then zigzag) |
| Stanley Nash | Mabel Trimble |
| Edward Phillips | Mary Holden )Snyder) |
| Clarence Habel | Frances Rynearson |
| Anna Steck (Duncan) | Eugenia Blake |
| Edward Drier | Gretchen Schmidt (Redding) |
| Barinka Gibson (Sadler) | Paul Sawyer |
| Lottie Wright (Thomas) | Rodney Hoadley |
| Inde Smith | Ethel McKie |
| Lena Houser (Carrier) | Celia Servis |
| Ethel Mayes | Maud Fisher (Ford) |
| Florence Ryther (Watson) | |
| Front Row | |
| Grace Sittig (Lange | Anna Portinga |
| Stanley Smith | Leonard Sheldon |
| John Williams | Henry Dalenberg |
| Harry Case | Hattie Wright |
| Carrie Hess (Crosby) | Cressie Miller |
| Clara Shafer | Ruth Crosby )Storm) |
| Horace Phillips | Emory Sherwood |
| Gertrude Zeiger (Johnson) | Nina Smee (Hampton) |
| Belva Hibner | Karl Lowe |
1930 8th grade
Graduates
Mary M. Brda, Ralph E. Hacker, Edward Jelinek, Emil
Kottsick, Lillian Kottsick and Bessie E. Novacek.