Updated September 29, 2012

Oh those days of yesteryear when time stood still and we had not a care in the world.
Playing Jacks, touching the sky on the swing, shooting marbles and most important, learning our ABC's.

We are collecting old graduation rosters for 5th, 8th, 10th and 12th grade graduates on or before 1960.  
Also, if you have school photos, class pictures or even one of the old school buildings, I will add them here.
Donating information to the BERRIEN COUNTY MIGENWEB, keeps that file in perpetual viewing condition for generations to come.
You can reach me at - berrienmigenweb@yahoo.com or William Brackett with any additions or corrections.

School Building Photos

Elm Valley School Circa 1880 to 1944		Eaman School No 4. Hagar Dist Built in 1876	Benton Harbor High School
Old Berrien Springs High School 1956		New Troy School circa 1900	New Troy High School (circa 1947)
St. Joseph High School circa 1916		Washington School House - St. Joseph	Penn Yann School circa 1951

Schools of Watervliet - from Wade Lynch & Sharon Renno's combined efforts. Thank you! Old Watervliet High School The first graduating class of three were out of a little frame two room building that sat just west of the main corner of Main St and St Joseph. On the North side. There is a gas station on that lot now. Just to the West of that, where now is the site of a Laundromat, in 1890 they built what is considered by most to be the first school. It was four rooms, brick structure, and cost a whopping $4,750. In 1897 they added five rooms. It housed students up until 1924 and was finally tore down in 1933.

Watervliet school (circa 1920's) In 1924 they built a new school across the street on the South West corner of Main and St. Joseph. For a cost of $250,000. It saw students from K-12 until 1954 when the North and South Elementary schools were built. Then continued untill 1967 as a High School. And a few years after that as a Middle School. It was abandoned in 1977 and finally tore down in 2004.

In 1967 they built the high school that is still being used today East of the city on St. Joseph St.

School Histories & Pupil Photos
Bainbridge Benton Harbor Schools Buchanan Schools Coloma Schools Hatfield School New Buffalo Schools New Troy	Penn Yan Niles Schools Oronoko Schools Royalton Schools Three Oaks Schools Weesaw Schools

Graduating Classes
Bainbridge Graduates Baroda Graduates Benton Harbor Graduates Berrien Springs Buchanan Graduates - 1907 program	Buchanan Graduates- Grad Classes Eau Claire New Troy Saint Joseph Graduates Three Oaks

Old Time School House Listing - Fact Sheet of Old Time Schools of Berrien County.
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