TOWN OF ALBION, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of Spring Creek School in the Town of Albion on the State Register of Historic Places. The schoolhouse at N5311 Moss Hill Road was added to the State Register on May 24, 2024. State Historic Preservation Officer Daina Penkiunas presented a certificate to Bruce Thayer, Karen Thayer, Linda Zabek and Darren Durman.

Spring Creek School is the only small, rural school in the Town of Albion that remains intact on its original site. It is also Jackson County’s best and most intact nineteenth-century example of this increasingly rare building type. Since it ceased to be used as a school in 1962, the schoolhouse has been home to a museum operated by the Jackson County Historical Society to showcase the history of rural education in the area.

Spring Creek School, with its single classroom, was erected by the Albion School District in 1885 as a replacement for an earlier and smaller parochial school located a mile and a half away. The wood-frame schoolhouse rests on a fieldstone foundation and has a sheltered entrance porch. The main façade is crowned by a small wood bell tower which still contains the original bell. The classroom space has been restored and contains old wooden children’s desks, schoolbooks, maps and other items. 

Additional information for Spring Creek School is available at

https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI243703

To learn more about the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visit: www.wisconsinhistory.org.

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