CACHE: A park and grab that might take you a minute or two to find. Traffic can be heavy here at times so please park on the dirt road and walk to GZ. Hint is a giveaway.
HISTORY: I've been in pursuit of information on "Unknown Dryden School Section 34" for quite some time. I suspect that this is in fact the Grubb School after a recent trip to Lansing. All information I've read about Grubb School points in this direction, maps with the same fractional district designation match with what the state archives has for it, FD#9. The school was established in the late 1850's per tax roll records, making it one of the first officially organized schools in the county, which was barely 20 years old and with much of the north half of the county unsettled. Dryden was growing by 1850, yet still very wild. The school was on the Lusher Farm about half a mile west of Rochester Road and a quarter mile north of the county line. Bordman Road used to continue west and then go northwest, connecting to what is now Lasher Road. There used to be a road closed sign in the bushes there before the intersection was redone. I believe an error was made naming Lasher, since the farmer was definitely Lusher with a U. A newspaper article called this the Lusher School, but the state archives do not have anything on a school by that name, only Grubb. The last time it was mentioned on maps as a school was in 1936. I do not have a date when it closed. I'm sure when it did the students here transferred to Dryden, Almont and Leonard area schools. This school from what I know was still standing in the 1970's but was in pretty rough shape then. I know it's gone, I had visited the property owner at the dead end of Lasher Road around 1997 or so and asked about the nearby school. He said, as he pointed, it was in the woods south of his house. Nothing was left of it by then, just a pile of rotted wood, most of it carted off to be burned by another neighbor. The land where the road, school and two homes sat are slowly being taken over by the swamp, allowed to go back to nature. Depending on the year, you can see on the west side of the road lilacs and other common "domestic" plants, showing us at one time this property was more than just wild land. Today it's all private property to the north, and nature preserve to the south. Attached are what photos I do have of the school, aerials only.