The first settlers of Sanilac county, although not highly educated, were men who
appreciated the general school system of the State of Michigan. As soon as a settlement contained a sufficient number of children to warrant the maintenance of a school, a district was organized, school kept for three months, necessary returns made to draw the primary money, taxes voted and assessed for a school-house, and thus fully equipped and maintained a school such as the law directs. The first school in the county was taught in the township of Worth sometime during 1838 in a log house, one mile south of the village of Lexington.
