Fish Lake School in 1954.
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| DISTRICT FORMED | 1864 |
| YEARS SCHOOLS BUILT | 1866 |
| GENERAL LOCATION | “Twelve miles from Stillwater, eleven miles from St. Paul, five miles from Lake Elmo and about eight miles from Cottage Grove and Afton.” – Stillwater Gazette |
| MODERN ADDRESS | Located at 1800 St. John Drive in Woodbury. |
| DISTRICT BOUNDARIES | Western boundary was a couple miles east of the border of Ramsey County and the eastern border was near present-day Highway 95. |
| DISPOSITION | Now a storage building (also the Trail Riders Saddle Club meeting place) |
| Memories: | “Rural schools developed the idea that we teach the whole child, not just a subject.” -Harriet Palm Lee “Sometimes when the weather was real bad and the snow too deep for cars, the parents would hitch up their team of horses to a big sled and bring the children to school that way.” -Lorraine Nelson”We walked to school each day with the Parker kids and the Wendt kids. At the top of the hill were two Stotesberry girls and then the Pribnow kids. I remember each row of desks were the different grades. I loved that old school and the memories we had. I remmeber we would go on a field trip to a small lake behind the school each year. There was a very large house on that lake (I believe it was the Kinney [Kindy] eye doctor’s home). We were in awe as it was such a very large fancy home” – Judi Harting |
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Known Teachers:
| 1864-5: Eliza Emerson (resigned-illness), Nellie White (finished term) 1876-7: David Gross 1938-9: Thelma Olson 1939-40: Thelma Olson 1941-2: Harriet Palm Lee |
| Other teachers: Mrs. Agnes Partridge, (the rest before 1898) Anton Rode, Emma Swanson, Lorenz Kruse, Sarah Noltimeier, Almo Strate Thomspon, Phoebe Hoenslin, Renata Franzman Thiel, Gertrude Augstin Bielenberg, Viola Picullel Nickelson, Mrs. Helen Schultz, Margery Knapp, Mrs. Lillian Bowell, Mary Skeffington Urtel. |