CACHE: Park and grab.
HISTORY: Brownell school was established prior to 1863 and was open until around 1948. It sat empty for many years and eventually demolished to put in the golf course community and a couple of homes along M-24. A ranch styled home is said to be sitting on the old school property. A road running west used to go through here, connecting to Baldwin Road. This road also no longer exists, Masters Drive starts out on the old road bed. The road was removed from early maps but still existed through at least 1940, merely a two-track used by a farmer to access his landlocked property. From the Metamora book "Brownell was a typical school of the times. It was built of wood, had a small entrance, a bell and tower, with outhouses and a woodshed in back. Brownell never had a well. Even in the 1942 list of improvements for the school, the request on the top of the list was a well on the school grounds." Children would carry pails of water from a nearby farm, story is the pails were full when they left and had barely any water by the time they got to the school, but you could count on there being some grass or leaves.