PLATTE TOWNSHIP RURAL SCHOOLS

Platte #1Dible Schoolc 1889-1957NE Corner Section 11
Platte #2Hazel Dell Schoolc 1889-1958SW Corner Section 3
Platte #3Frog Pond Schoolc 1876-1920SE Corner Section 6
Platte #4Union City Schoolc 1858-1940NW Corner Section 21
Platte #5Platte Center Schoolc 1876-1947Middle of E Side Section 15
Platte #6Sunny Side Schoolc 1876-1943Middle of W Side Section 24
Platte #7Bloody Seven Schoolc 1876-191953NW Corner Section 36
Platte #8[Madden's] Grove Schoolc 1856-1948Middle of E Side Section 28
Platte #9Prairie Star Schoolc 1876-1959SE Corner Section 30

According to Alfred Lucas in his book, entitled Kent Next Four Exits, Madden’s Grove school was the first school in the township, and therefore Platte # 1.  Later schools were numbered consecutively as they were built. The 1894 map of the Township  shows 10 different school districts in the township, numbered in a somewhat haphazard way. About 1900 the numbering system was changed to the same standard that was used throughout the state, nine districts per Township.

Platte Schoolhouse #1

The Frog Pond Schoolhouse was renumbered to Platte #3 about 1900.

Platte Township # 6, Sunny Side School.

Platte #6 - Sunnyside School. - many years after it closed.

Former Sunnyside School students, Gladys (PHILPOTT) CARNS, her sister Violet (PHILPOTT) HAMLIN, and Maureen "Polly" WARE daughter of Mary Alice (HAMLIN) WARE. about 1954.

Prairie Star School - Platte #9 - 2026 photo

Platte # 9, Prairie Star school is located in the north east corner of section 31.  The original school was 1/2 mile east of this site. The original school was moved by mule teams to a location just south of the present school.  The old school burned sometime before 1923 and a new school with a basement was built and is still at that location today. Irene (Mrs. Raymond Francis) put a new roof on the school a few years ago and the Tripp family has given the school house new windows and siding.

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