Schoolhouse
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In 1891 Congress established the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial School and appropriated $25,000 for land and buildings. Local citizens contributed an additional thirty-four hundred dollars for the land. First occupied on June 30,1893, the school building contained eight classrooms and an auditorium.
The school, emphasizing academics and vocational training, operated until 1934, with an average enrollment of three hundred. That year the property was transferred to the State of Michigan, becoming the Mount Pleasant branch of the Michigan Home and Training School.
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