The Silver Lake School was located on Highway 7, about a mile from Frank Krone’s farm.
It was built around 1899 and was a working school through 1922, when many rural schools were being incorporated into the Eatonville School District.
For those who may recognize some names from the past, here are the teachers over the years.
1921-1922 — Marguerite Johnson
1920-1921 — Lora Rex
1919-1920 — M. Fogel
1918-1919 — Marguerite Fogel (L. P. Rosch)
1917-1918 — J. Skiles
1916-1917 — Carrie Bement
1915-1916 — Minerva Gleason (Verona Doan)
1914-1915 — Mary Jacobson
1913-1914 — Mary Jacobson
1912-1913 — Mary Jacobson
1911 -1912 — Lina Gallaway
1910-1911 — Jocy Nagley
1909-1910 — Jocy Nagley
1908-1909 — Daisy Cooper
1907-1908 — W. A. Cummings
1906-1907 — Daisy Cooper
1906-1899* — Records aren’t clear on actual days or dates taught — Georgia Shellar, Minne Bonne, Myrtle Weydt, Josie Jackson
(Per History of Southeastern Pierce County)
Photo courtesy of Terry and Sharon Van Eaton.
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