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Britt Valley SCHOOL

Primrose Township
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9404 Old County JG
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1890
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District: Joint 2
Notes: 1850 - 1962. In December, 1849 residents decided to build a school house on land owned by Joel and Salomy Britt. The land was located in the NE quarter of the SW quarter of Section 6 in the Town of Primrose. The school opened in May, 1850 with 20 pupils taught by Mary L. Thomas in the unfinished log cabin until a new schoolhouse was built. 

In 1856 the school burned down and in September of that year Board members voted to rebuild on the same site. William Wallace Patchin was the first teacher in the new building. This building burned in 1856 and was replaced with a frame building. School was held upstairs in the Konle granary until the new building was completed. This second Britt Valley School was torn down in 1917 and a new, larger school built on the same site in September of that year. 

This was the third school on the same site. The Britt Valley Joint District 2 school closed for good after the Spring Term 1962. The school is currently a private residence located at 9404 Old Highway JG and is one of the loveliest examples of re-purposing a rural school.
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