Dunn County WI Archives History - Schools .....Bolen School-New Haven Township November 2, 2013
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School district number 3 was known as Bolan.

	According to the Town of New Haven Meeting Minutes dates April 12, 
1867, this school district was formerly known as district # 3 of Menomonie. 
Formally becoming District #3 of New Haven on this date.  The first school 
building was that of a log house. 
	The 2nd Bolan school building was a one-room schoolhouse in section 29 
of New Haven Township.  The building was built around 1888.  The school housed 
up to 40 students at one time, with one schoolteacher present. 
	The school was a log building that sat near the Bolan Creek.  In about 
1924 the school was moved to higher ground, a basement was included and more 
room was added onto. The school then sat on what the children 
called “Huckleberry Bluffs”
	The hill next to the school provided excellent sledding and sliding and 
skiing for the students. 
	The monthly pay salary for a schoolteacher ranged from $30.00 in 1901 
to $40.00 in 1909.
	One of the early schoolteachers was Bertie Perry in 1886 (Later married 
to Herbert Bulman)  The schoolteachers for Bolen School were:1901-Albert 
Thomas, 1902-Alice Prutt, and Albert Thomas, 1903-Mae Hunter, Elsie Peterson, 
GG Braker and Clyde Mason. 1904-Ethel Doolittle, 1905-Laura Diffendorfer and 
Elsie Mathews, 1906-Julie Hill, and Eliza Swartz, 1907-Roy Repp, 1908-Emma 
Kinney, and  Jeannie Klingman, 1909-Margarette Hayes, Kate Kelly, and Olive 
Harrington, 1910-Lizzie Hilmer, Martha Lanfall, and Ella Webert, 1911-Carol 
Schellinger, 1912-Lora Tufs, and  Esther Ausman, 1913-Esther Ausman, 1914-Eva 
Bourasau, 1915-Hazel Clark, 1916-Robert Diller, 1917-Josie Forseth, 1918-Stella 
Walseth, 1919-Josephine Schellinger, 1920-Josephine Schellinger, 1921-Lola 
Bygd, 1922-Ada McLaughlin, 1923-Daisy Snyder, 1924-Daisey Snyder, 1925-Derda 
Edes, 1926-Geneva Swenby 1927-Alto Baker, 1928-Clara Boehm, 1929-George McLeod, 
1930-Mary Cunningham, 1931-Ella Hayes , D. C. Boardman, 1932-Dorothy Rosseter, 
1933-1935 Marie Breslin, 1936-1938 Elnora Elstadt, 1939-Lillian Moller, 1943-
Neil Crosby, 1944-Francis Reynolds, 1947-Mary Cooley, 1948-Freida Canfield, 
1950-Mrs. E.R. Flemming, 1953-Mrs. Freda Canfield 1958-1959-Adella Hanson
	After the one-room schoolhouses became consolidated into one district, 
the old Bolan school building was sold.  It was moved to the corner of State 
Hwy 64 and County Road Q.  The old school bell sits in the front yard as a 
memory of days gone by.



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