Traverse City SDA Elementary School students placed this cache as a part of their geography studies. The cache is placed in the treeline on the east side of the building.
The school is celebrating their 117 year in Traverse City on July 26 of this year. The original school’s location was at the rear of the church at the corner of Tenth and Wadsworth. Electricity was introduced into the facility when the school opened in 1908. Miss Jane Sweet had 16 students enrolled for classes that fall.
In 1929, a larger school was built on West Thirteenth Street. Madge Kamerer was hired as the teacher.
During the war years of the 1940s the school was run intermittently. A church pastor stated that it would be better to sell the church than to close the school. However, the school did close and the building was sold in 1964.
By 1969, the school reopened at the former Black School on the corner of Hammond and 3 Mile Rd. (The building is now a chiropractor’s office.) By 1976, because of the age of the Black School, a new facility was built on Gray Rd. in Long Lake Township. Classes began in the new building on September 4, 1977.
We’ve just celebrated 14 years in our new location. The first class was held in the new facility on April 10, 2001.
If you turn north, you can see a panoramic view of the bay. When our principal interviewed her a few years ago, this was her first introduction to Traverse City and she fell in love with the area immediately!