Indiana School

Indiana School is a Michigan historical marker in Van Buren County, dedicated 1986.

615 Indiana Avenue, South Haven

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This school was built for Ward One of the South Haven School District in 1898. Constructed at a cost of nearly $5,000 by William Buck, the handsome two-story building was designed by Frank S. Allen. It later took its name from the street on which it is located. On December 5, 1898, some 115 students, kindergarten through sixth grade, moved into the structure. Since that time, Indiana School has remained a South Haven neighborhood school.

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1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1911 · Map of the surface formations of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
[Road map of southwestern Michigan, South Haven to Benton Harbor and Dowagiac] (University of Chicago Library, Mapping Chicagoland · CC BY-NC 4.0, used by permission)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Indiana School, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern Michigan, 1897, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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