Agenda - Public Works Committee - 03/20/2018

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Sdexe ea is 'am4eey During the years 1854-55 there was no school in the village of Anoka and the older pupils went to Nathan Shumway's house in the town of Ramsey where Miss Sarah C. Bowen (Mrs. Moses Brown) kept a private school. School was also held in a room of the James Collins' home, one of the first frame buildings, formerly the Itasca hotel. In 1898 a school was built on the site of the former Itasca Village and on what is now the Harry Warneke property. This school burned and a new one was built on the south side of the present highway near Bowers Drive where the Olson family re- sides now. This was school district 39. As the township grew the number of one room schoolhouses increased. The build- ing for school district 16 was originally a church on the river side of Highway 10 which was moved across the highway next to the present location of Greenberg's Garage and where the trailer park now stands. School district 44 was located on what is now County Road 5 or Nowthen Boulevard across from Keillors and is now in the process of being torn down. John Goss gave the land for the school and Isaac Varney homesteaded just behind the school. Among those who taught there, and are well known today, were Miss Ruth Stake (1911-1912) and Miss Mabel Green (Mrs. Charles Perkins) in 1913-1914. District 38 was called the Chamberlain School of which E. 0. Hanks was a former clerk. Charles Perkins was one of the students who attended school there. District 29, or the Dunham School was actually in Burns township, but some Ramsey children attended school there, as it was much closer to their homes. The Trott Brook school, district No. 14, was located on Highway 47 or St. Francis Blvd. and has now been converted into a home. District 28, the brick school house, that at present is the Ramsey City Hall, was built in the 1800's, the exact date as yet has not been found. 34