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One-Room School Houses of Dodge County. An online eBook

Williamstown

District # 2

Williamstown Township

Yr End	Teacher
1849	Logan Crawford & Mary Ann Taylor
1850	Mary Ann Taylor, Ezra B. Bowen, and Mary C. Clemans
1851	H.W. Penim & Josephine E. Niles
1852	A.J. Rankin, Jessica Heiblane, and Margaret Reeves
1853	William Ande & Alida Meid
1854	Albert Lawrence & Elisa Lundgreen
1855	Ernst Muzzy & Mary Dunning
1856	R.M. Reed & Helen H. Brown
1857	T.D. McKee & Mary Brayman
1858	Ernst Muzzy, Edward J. Foster, R.S. Chapman, Adra M. Reynolds
1859	R.S. Chapman, August Herman, Edward J. Foster, E.H. Benton, and John A. Barney
1860	L. B. Purmont, Miss Purmont, Adra M. Reynolds, A.M. Rankin, Edward J. Foster, John A. Barney

We have no pictures of the two original schools for this district. The first log cabin school was built in 1847 and was used until 1848. The second one room school was built in 1849 and was used until the larger school in the picture was opened in 1857. Mayville’s White Limestone School was used from 1857-1981, with a total of 121 years of public education.

If anyone has pictures of the two previous schools, we would love to add them to our collection.

The Mayville School District began operating as a departmentalized school in 1857-1858, with the building of the White Limestone School. At least four teachers were hired each year. When an addition was completed in 1877, twice as many teachers were needed. In 1880, when high school was included in the building, additional staff was required again. We did not continue to record the faculty lists, since the district was no longer operating like a rural school.