Schools of Kickapoo 1902

Prior to the adoption of the free school system there were very few public schools in Kickapoo Township. 

In 1840 Mr. Samuel Dimon, who had come to the township in 1838, hauled the logs for the first school house in what is now District No. 1. It was situated on the northeast quarter of Section 11, where the present school house now stands. In that house Miss Harriet Hitchcock is believed to have been the first teacher, Samuel Dimon afterwards taught there for two or three terms.

Prior to 1851 there was a school house some distance west of Hale's Mill, known as the Kingsley School House; but it is not known when or by whom it was built. 

In 1851 Miss Sarah Smith taught the first school at Hale's Mill, occupying a cooper shop for a school house. The school house, now located at Pottstown, is known as No. 4. 

The first school house in District No. 5 was located on the northwest quarter of Section 9. It was a frame building erected in the spring of 1851, at a cost of $260. The first school taught there was by H. Gregory, commencing in the fall of that year. This school house was replaced in 1877, by a modern frame house which cost $570.

The first school house in District No. 6 was erected on the southeast quarter of Section 16, in August, 1860. It was a frame building costing $300. School was commenced there in the fall of 1860 by a teacher named H. M. Behymer. 

The first school house in District No. 7 was erected in the summer of 1867 on the northeast quarter of Section 33. Miss H. Pritchard was the first teacher there. She commenced in the winter of that year. 

The first school house in District No. 8 was erected in the summer of 1867 on the northwest quarter of Section 13, at a cost of $528. The first school was taught there in the winter of that year by Miss Hattie C. Humison. 

The township is now well supplied with school houses of modern style, and the schools are in a prosperous condition. The Patrons of Husbandry at one time had a strong hold in this township, there having been two granges. No. 446 or South Kickapoo, new extinct, and Orange, having a Grange Hall on the northeast quarter of Section 11, It is one of the seven yet surviving in the county.