State legislation would address the educational needs of growing areas as the demands for education grew over the decades. Events affecting population movements, such as World War I and World War II, impacted school development. There were annexations by Ann Arbor which brought rural school districts into the urban system. Small settlements grew into villages then to townships. Historically, schools grew from small population centers and then gradually merged and coalesced into larger systems. The development of the schools in Pittsfield Township is well-documented in this collection, in the Pittsfield Township, 1833-1960 series. In 1837 another log cabin school was erected in Pittsfield Township, at which site in 1953 would be built Meadowview School. The first 'school' in Washtenaw County was an outdoor school held in the summer of 1825 near Platt Road, eventually replaced by a log cabin. The collection consists of nine series: Ann Arbor Board of Education, 1838-1994 Ann Arbor Public Schools Historic Records, 1853-1970 Historic School District Records, 1865-1965 Pittsfield Township, 1833-1960 Administration, 1946-1982 Desegregation, 1965-1970 Scrapbooks, 1933-1969 Miscellaneous other records 2012 Accession.
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