Sylvania School in Yorkville

Sylvania School in the Town of Yorkville, Racine County, Wisconsin
Toase, Drinkwater, and Smith family of Somers, Wisconsin are all related.
(Photo courtesy of Jim Smith)

School District No. 14 - Kelloggs Corners School

(A joint district of Pike (later Somers), Mt. Pleasant, Yorkville, and Paris Townships)

A meeting was held at the house of Chauncey Kellogg in Mt. Pleasant on May 18, 1844, to have and organize a school district to be called the Sylvania School District.  The first school building constructed of logs and timbers hewn from the woods nearby, was built about a quarter of a mile south of the corners.  After a time, this building was sold and moved to the Daniel Coughlin farm just west in Paris Township.  A new site near the Methodist Church was purchased and a new building was erected.

Judge Roy Burgess, now of Racine, was an early student and Attorney Peter Meyers as well.  The water system at the Sylvania School was the "old oaken bucket", the moss covered bucket that hung in the well at the rear of the A.T. Gould home.  Children loved to "go for water" and stop at the A.T. Gould blacksmith shop which stood at The Corners for 70 years.

Kellogg's Corners Pioneer Families

Heidersdorf, Christian and William

Varney

Lee, Richard

Gould, Amon T.

Kellogg, Chauncey

Kellogg, Helmont

Kellogg, Austin (son of Helmont)

Kellogg, Seth (son of Helmont)

*If information for these families is not on this site, please browse the Oakwood Cemetery website.