Schools II

I have mentioned before that there were two country schools that serviced the students of the Bertram Lakes Area 125+ years ago. One was the Hanaford Country School which was located on Cahill Avenue, a fifth-mile south of County Road 106. This school was open from around 1870 to 1952. Then students began attending Oakwood School in Monticello. The Hanaford Country School was torn down some time in the 1970’s.

The second school was the Prairie West Country School located along County Road 39 West, approximately two miles from the I-94 underpass. The school met its demise on March 10, 2018. I wrote a letter to the editor of the Monticello Times which reads as follows:

These schools represent a time gone by, yet they also show that they were important in the development of the area.