Historian Ms. Norma Kramer Collection
contributed by: Michael Dionne

SUNNY BROOK SCHOOL

One example of these early rural schools was SUNNY BROOK district No. 4. The first building was a wooden, one-room replaced in 1913. The wooden building was removed to the comer of Sunny Brook Road and the Belgian Road, remodeled into a cheese factory, later used as a slaughter house, a store, then moved from the premises to be remodeled into a home.

In 1913 the cement block building having two rooms was built by Nick Neuer who owned a cement block factory where he made decorative blocks. Similar ones can be seen in the construction of the old Mathey building, now Lyle's Red Owl.

The name Sunny Brook was selected by vote of the student body as were the school colors of maroon and gold.

The two room school with two teachers had an average of 60 students in grades 1-4 and 5-8.

Many social and community events were held at the school. Christmas programs were performed by students for the parents on lemonade and homemade fee cream. School meetings always brought large crowds with community interest and cooperation. Four-H Club meetings, card games, ice cream socials and box lunch actions were all part of the fun at the Sunny Brook country school.

These rural schools were actually districts of their own with their own school board.ool in the State of Wisconsin in 1914 were very sample by today's standards: