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HISTORY OF ALPENA COUNTY BY WILLIAM BOULTON IN 1876
SCHOOLS
Like the rest of Michigan, Alpena county can boast of many school-houses, every year the taxpayers willingly submit to a heavy tax in order that the children in the county may be educated. Besides the city schools there are educated at different places in the county, 13 school-houses, many of them surrounded by woods, the scholars coming from a radius of three miles to attend
The first thing that the people think of in a new settlement is a road so that
they can get to and from their farms, and as soon as this is accomplished they
turn their attention to the school, and soon a neat log or frame building is
erected; a teacher is engaged, and the work of making future presidents com-
mences.
comprising the townships of Alpena, Wilson, and Long Rapids, and the school
The union school district of the township of Alpena contains seven frame and four log school-houses, worth |5, 400 and capable of seating 420 scholars. The school receipts (1875) from taxes, etc., was $8, 134. 47. The expenditures have been as follows: Paid male teachers, $3, 075; paid female teachers, $870; for building and repairing school-houses, $861. 61; incidentals, $1, 455. 74. The school-houses are furnished with maps, charts, and blackboards. At present there is no public library in the district. The district schools are under the control of a board of trustees, six in number. This board chooses from its number, a moderator, a director, and an assessor.
ALPENA COUNTY MICHIGAN
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