Mishicot Historical Museum

Miscellaneous photos: A classroom full of students inside the Jambo Creek School on Jambo Creek Road near Mishicot, Wisconsin, a 1916 Jambo Creek School picnic with the handwritten caption, “Clara Jonas, Teacher — Mishicot Museum, from Elaine Larson,” and a photo with the handwritten caption, “Jambo Creek School Fair.”

From “Mishicot’s Meaningful Memories“:

The school got its name because it was located in the area where Jacques Vieu or Zhambo as the Indians called him set up one of the first trading posts in Manitowoc County along the small creek. The old Green Bay Trail passed the old trading post.

The first log schoolhouse was built about 1847. It was also used as a church by the residents. Later this building was sold for $19.00 and was used as a kitchen by the John Ploeckelmann family.

The second and last school was built in 1873 for the cost of $378.00. Homemade desks and seats were built and used until 1883 when new patented double desks were ordered by the voters. At the time of the building of the second school, a privy 9×5 feet, double-boarded, partitioned through the middle and having two doors, was voted for at the cost of $12.00. A woodshed was also erected for $11.50 which included lumber and labor.

The school housed all eight grades, enrollment being between 74 to 20 children for a school term.

The clerk’s record book shows this area was settled by Norwegians, Germans and French. Common names found in some of the old records are Brouchoud, Stueck, Olson, Eckhardt and Vertz. Mrs. Delores Kochrosky was the last teacher of the school when it was closed and the children were bussed to the Mishicot Grade School in the 1960’s.