Lincoln Consolidated School

The school district, first named Agricultural Rural Training School No. 1 of Ypsilanti and Augusta Townships, was renamed Lincoln Consolidated School because the school board felt it fulfilled the ideals for which Abraham Lincoln stood: equal educational opportunity for rural as well as urban students. Under the leadership of Dr. M. S. Pittman, citizens of the 13 one-room school districts and Michigan State Normal College cooperated to form the framework for an exemplary rural consolidated school. This consolidation created the first multi-township school in Michigan and the first rural consolidated school system in the United States affiliated with a teacher training school.

Michigan · United States