Manitowoc County WI Archives History - Schools .....Rockland No. 1 
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ROCKLAND NO. 1 — Suspended

    Rockland school district No. 1 was among the last of the districts organized
in Manitowoc county. It belonged originally to the Rockland joint school
district No. 1 composed of the village of Reedsville and areas of farm land in
Rockland and Maple Grove. It withdrew from the original district because of the
high taxes raised for grade and high school purposes. The detachment was made
possible by the passage of a state law in 1927 and repealed in 1939.

    The original petition to detach this area was filed on March 28, 1930, in
conjunction with the Maple Grove No. 5 territory detachment proceedings. The
petition was addressed to the school officers of Rockland Jt. No. 1 (Reedsville)
and petitioned them to detach the area from said joint school district bordering
on said joint school district and outside of the incorporated village of
Reedsville. The school officers ignored this petition, so an appeal was filed
with the county superintendent of schools within 20 days after the filing of the
original petition. Upon receiving this appeal, Supt. E. S. Mueller issued an
order on April 30, 1930, that all of the territory outside of Reedsville be
detached and a new school district or districts be set up, or that the territory
be attached to contiguous existing, school districts.

    On May 30, 1930, the town boards of Maple Grove and of Rockland ordered that
two new districts be formed from the territory so detached by order of the
county superintendent of schools, and that a part of the said territory be
attached to Maple Grove No. 3. One of the new districts formed was Rockland
school district No. 1, made up of a strip of land one-half mile wide and four
miles long in sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11 in Rockland township.

    Rockland school district No. 1 has never erected a school house. Upon
withdrawal from Reedsville, it has continued to send the grade children to the
village schools. The first school census listed only 39 children of school age
residing in the newly created school district. During its existence the yearly
census average was between 40 and 50 children between the ages of 4 and 20
years. Most of the grade children have always attended the parochial schools in
Reedsville according to the amount of taxes raised for school purposes. For only
one year did the voters raise $200 for school purposes. The rest of the years
the district raised only $100 yearly. Records reveal the fact that for at least
seven years, no school taxes were levied!

  Among the signers of the original petition to detach the area outside of the
village of Reedsville from Rockland Jt. school district No. 1 were John Jonas
and Steve Foreyt. It was only natural then to elect these men to office on the
school board of the newly created Rockland No. 1. Records reveal the fact that
the original officers elected in 1930 are still in office at present. The first
and present school officers are clerk Steve Foreyt, director John Jonas, and
treasurer John W. Mahnke.


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1848 - 1948

CENTENNIAL HISTORY
of the
Manitowoc County School Districts and Public School System

EDITED BY JOS. J. RAPPEL, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 1948 


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