Adams Township Schools Daily Attendance Registers
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection consists of daily attendance registers, which list the names and ages of the students as well as their attendance.
Dates
- 1871 - 1878
Language of Material
English
Access
Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.
Biographical / Historical
The center of Copper Range Company mining operations until the 1950s, Adams Township contains the Village of South Range and the unincorporated communities of Atlantic Mine, Baltic, Painesdale, Toivola, and Trimountain. The township was separated from Portage Township in March 1867 and named after the Adams Mining Company, one of the predecessors to the Atlantic Mining Company. In 1871, the first school opened in Atlantic Mine.
Extent
0.18 Cubic Feet (1/2 manuscript box (letter size))
Abstract
The center of Copper Range Company mining operations until the 1950s, Adams Township contains the Village of South Range and the unincorporated communities of Atlantic Mine, Baltic, Painesdale, Toivola, and Trimountain. The collection consists of daily attendance registers, which list the names and ages of the students as well as their attendance.
Acquisition
The collection was donated by Esther and Ferris R. Dennis of Atlantic Mine in 1975.
- Title
- Adams Township Schools Daily Attendance Registers
- Author
- Elizabeth Russell
- Date
- 5/10/2011
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository