I recall all-too-many years ago while driving through Sunfield, seeing an old one-room schoolhouse out in the countryside. Of course, I got out of the car and took a look inside; glad I did, because it’s no longer there…what a shame.
I believe it was just a tad north of town out in a field, if my foggy memory recalls correctly. I know there were quite a few old schools surrounding Sunfield at one point…
Sunfield lies west of Lansing in Eaton County and had its genesis in 1836 when the first settler, Sam Hoyt, arrived and set up a homestead. A township named ‘Sunfield’ was eventually formed, but it took until 1855 before the village received its own post office. Only seventeen years later – in July 1872 – it closed. It re-opened just two months later and has remained ever since.
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Sunfield was a station on the Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railroad and finally became an incorporated village in 1899…