Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 14, 1955
Caption:
LAST DAY AT 117-YEAR-OLD BENTON SCHOOL: A program of music and dancing yesterday afternoon marked the last day of the last year for the Benton School, on US-112 west of Saline, which is to be abandoned. Though parents and grandparents may have experienced their nostalgic moments of sadness the youngsters had a high, old time, as the picture above shows.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 19, 1967
Caption:
All In One Classroom Students at Redeemer Lutheran School's one-room schoolhouse listen intently as Raymond Manthe, principal and teacher reads them a lesson. The school is one of three Lutheran elementary schools in Ann Arbor. All seven grades - kindergarten through sixth - are taught in the schoolhouse. Twenty-eight pupils attend classes at Redeemer Lutheran, which was built in 1946 and is supported by the Wisconsin Synod congregation of Lutherans here.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 19, 1956
Caption:
POPKINS SCHOOL: One of several small rural schools in Ann Arbor township is Popkins School at Earhart and Plymouth Rds. The one-room structure was built in 1878. Recently, some of these township school districts have been annexed to the Ann Arbor city school system.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 8, 1956
Caption:
SCHOOL'S THREE GENERATIONS: Laurence Frederick, 27, of 1820 Green Rd., Ann Arbor township (left), leaves his son, Bradley, 5, in kindergarten at Popkins School as Edward W. Frederick of 1741 Green Rd. holds the door open for his grandson. Edward Frederick, chairman of the Washtenaw Board of Supervisors, and his son, Laurance, both attended Popkins, where Bradley started kindergarten this week. Popkins School was built in 1879.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 12, 1998
Caption:
Popkins School, a one-room schoolhouse at the corner of Plymouth and Earhart roads, was nearly destroyed by a fire in 1983 and has slowly deteriorated since then.