Dunn County WI Archives History - Schools .....Hilson School-New Haven Township 2013
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School district number 2 was known as Hilson.

	The Hilson School was located in New Haven Township in section 2.  The 
school took on the name Hilson from the man whose land that the school sat on.  
Nelson Christ Hilson.  His house was located just east of where the 1st school 
building was situated. 
	The original Hilson School building was built on a wood frame in the 
late 1800’s.  It sat just east about ¼ of a mile east from where the new 
(current) building was built.  The “old” building was used until 1917 when a 
new brick building was built.  The front of the school building faced the 
North.  The town road at that time ran to the North of the School.  Today the 
town road runs on the South side of the building. 
	When the school districts were consolidated, the building was sold to 
private owners in 1958 and converted into a home.
	This one room school building housed up to 78 students at one time with 
two teachers.  After completing school, students then went onto high school at 
either Boyceville or Clear Lake.
	Teachers who taught at the Hilson School were Vivian (Francis) Solberg, 
Eileen (Breslin) Sempf, Isabelle Moen, and Elva (Burril) Van Blaricom, Howard 
Olson, and Kathryn (Peabody) Hybben, Lucy Peacore,  Esther Aale, Mariam Lawlar, 
Crescense Biddle, Joyce Hedlund, Freida (Schmidt) Canfield, Hilda Kuhn, Lyla 
Larrabee, Alice Anderson, Marie (Bresln,) Wagner, Vurl Scovel, Elsie (Wood) 
Warner, Joyce Hedlund, Hulda Kuhn, Lila Larabee, Arthur Eggman,  and Frieda 
Schmidt.
	Children walked as much as 4 miles to school.  Many chores at the 
school were dependant upon student.  Such as hauling in wood and tending the 
fire. 


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