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Fox Lake Township
Introduction to District Schools
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HIGH
LIGHTS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS
No.
3 - (Village)
First
tax-supported school
in county-
Augusta
Butterfleld-Blake first teacher
(also teaching in 1885)
New
school built 1886. Addition
1895.
Four-year high school 1893. Second high school 1950
No.
2 – Original school ˝ mile west Welsh Calvanistic
Church – “Welsh Settlement.”
"Pin
Hill "-should have been Penry Hill
One
of first adult organizations
No.
5- Chief Kuno on Island Resort
General
William Blake (Fisher)
William
Shore’s farm
Dividing
district, 18889
No.
12 (parent district of No. 5)
Lead
mines of the '70s
First
telephone- 1883
Lawrence
S. Keeley
Rev.
Charles Wilcox
Division
of 1889 the beginning of end
No.
8 - Mrs. Dickson's school about 1849 (Ireland)
Organized
about 1851- Miss Case first teacher
The
Gem (Kate Cruden)
F.L.
Junction - 14 families
Prof.
Lyman N. Root - singing school
No.
7 (Lake Emily)
Schaumburgh Hall
(Murder-
ghost stories)
Imogene
Winship
Henry
A. Graham chairman of a special school meeting, Oct. 1, 1877. $200 was noted to put an addition to the
school house, 12 x 18 ft. Sept 1, 1879 –
H. A. Graham was Sec. Aug. 3, 1880, elected
clerk for 3 years. Sec.
1884.
Fanny
Hames taught for 3 mo. in school district No. 7, Town
of Machford-Green Lake County, $22 a month. Commencary Aug 19,
1869; taught there only the one term.
Inez
Peasley taught in 1881 in Joint District No. 7, Town
of Machford, Green Lake and Fox Lake (Dodge) for $18
per month.
No.
12- (Lake View)
Indian
village at Shorecrest (Indian legends)
Browers’ first home
Wilms & Peschman
hotel
Following
is a list of teachers noted on a card at the Fox Lake Publiv
Library
District
#1 - Beahm School
1910 - Elizabeth McCarthy
1912-13 - Stella Smith
1913-14 -Anna G.Bauer
1914-15 - Nina E. Lovejoy
1915-16 -Stella Smith
School
located on F & Brave Road. It was gone in 1978. Noted as
a red brick school.
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August 16, 1956 Town of Fox
Lake purchased Pin Hill School to convert it to a town hall. The building and one acre of land was
purchased for $2500.00 (noted from card at Fox Lake Pub. Library).
April 7, 1905 County Line
School began Monday with Miss Bessie Cross as teacher (noted from card at Fox
Lake Pub. Library).
Feb. 13, 1884 Following is a
list of students with
Highest written exams of the
winter term: Trenton
Center #7
Mary Stapleton
Luell
Hemingway
Leon Borst
Eddie Gibbs
Phenie
Halstead
Allie White
Helen Falkenstern
District
#10 - Name?
1st
School - log bulding on east side of Lakeland Road on
SC McDowell farm.
It was owned in 1976 by Lawrence Schmidt. In 1875, a new school was built on west side
of road on line fence between Quandt farm and land
owned by Erwin Schmidt (1976). Last
building was sold at auction to Glen Oliver.
It was torn down to use as a city dwelling. Land reverted to Quandts.
Miss Augusta Butterfield was
1st teacher in first public School in Dodge County, 1845. She later taught at Lake Emily School. She married Charles Blake and was later
divorced. She retired in 1890.
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Early
history of education at Fox Lake was a topic of interest to the Woman's Club on
Monday evening, Feb 7th. Nellie McCarthy
reviewed the history of the district schools in the Town of Fox Lake No 2. Pin Hill began with a log school house in the
early ‘50 some distance west of the present building, which was the Welsh Calvanistic Church until 1916. Present No. 8 (Ireland) began at the home of
Mrs. Mary Dickson, at the site of Gibbs Bros, celery field, and the district
was organized in 1855. A copy of the
"Gem," a school paper written there in 1864, is still in
existence. No. 12 (Canada Island) was
organized in 1858 and closed about thirty years ago. In early days, the building was also used for
Sunday School classes.
No. 1 (Fairview) was organized in 1867, a
number of very amusing rules for the conduct of teachers and pupils are found
in the old records. Lake Emily was
another pioneer school moved to a different location some years ago; its record
show interesting spelling bees, and the organization of a Good Templars" lodge.
In the district No. 5 the youngest district in the town was organized in
1889, from part of the no. 2 district.
The name Fisher School was adopted because the first school meeting was
held at the home of Fred Fisher.
Miss
McCarthy complimented the Pin Hill Mothers Club and Lake Emily Community Club
on their help in school activities.
Miss
Jennie Moore discussed the Fox Lake Female Seminary organized in 1855 that
evolved into Downer College in the "70". It was first a local Baptist school for
girls, a companion to Wayland Academy, then for boys only. As the time went on, young men were admitted
to the Fox Lake institution and a few Fox Lake boys numbered among the
alumni. Miss Caroline Bodge, the first principal, is buried in the local
cemetery. Several other teachers and
principals were mentioned, the last being Miss Ellen Sabin, when the school
consolidated with Milwaukee College in 1895 and became Milwaukee-Downer. Miss Emily Brown, who taught at Fox Lake, is
still a member of the Milwaukee-Downer faculty.
Nelson
Bonner, manager of the Abstract Office, found that the present school property
was purchased from the Brower Brothers by Fox Lake Academy Association in
1854. John W. Davis was president and
William Smith secretary of this association that deeded the property to the
school district in 1856. The frame
building, now at the corner of State Street and College Avenue, was once used
as a school near the mill and the present Kenney home was a select school
taught by the Purdy sisters.
Mrs.
J. W. Hobkirk gave a report of the State Federation
board meeting that she attended at Milwaukee last week, and Mrs. W. R. Owen
describe a silk boycott by university girls at Chicago. Mrs. H. E. Adams was appointed chairman of
the local Cancer Control campaign, to be again sponsored by the club. $5.00 was donated to the Dodge County
Children’s Protective Association.
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