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Lone Pine Schoolhouse

The Lone Pine Schoolhouse, AKA the Kellogg School was built in 1906 and was sometimes referred to as the District 2 School (the Lovells School was District 1).

The Lone Pine schoolhouse was constructed by James Kellogg and Gustav Ernst in 1906 or 1907, the date has been debated over the years.

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The first teacher was Miss Husted. The school was better known as the Kellogg School partially because Mr. Kellogg helped build it, but probably more so because the Kellogg family had 17 children and there was always a Kellogg in the class during the 30 years the school was open.

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It was built on donated property on Jackson Hole Road, the property was designated for use only as a school. The log structure measured 20’ X 30’ and was built ten logs high with three windows on the north and south sides. All but one panel of the window glass is still original to the building as it sits now. The floors are original to the last 5 feet. The school sat directly on the ground and the logs around the bottom had to be replaced and the brick chimney was removed, otherwise the building is very much like it was when used for a school. The slate chalkboard is original as are three of the school desks. All these original items were donated to the Lovells Township Historical Society when the school was gifted and relocated to the township grounds in 1991. Click here to view a gallery of Moving the Lone Pine Schoolhouse.

 

The school closed in 1936 when the county schools were consolidated and buses started bringing the Lovells children to the school in Grayling. For the first time all the children in the county had an opportunity to extend their education higher than 7th grade!​

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When the school closed in 1936 it sat empty for several years until 1940 when it was bought by Dorothy Schackinber who moved into it with her two boys. She lived there until she died in 1960. The boys sold the property in 1965 and the final owner Rudolph Pallon gifted it to the Historical Society in 1991. A group of volunteers immediately began working to move it to its current location on the township grounds and began renovations that summer. Today it serves as one of two Museums operated by the Lovells Township Historical Society; inside the schoolhouse you’ll find photographs, artifacts and histories of the families that settled in Lovells as well as interesting natural history exhibits.

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