Ada Village General Store

Established in 2018. Ada Village General Store is a store that carries a variety of goods. We have a great mix of products Cards, Michigan Made Products, Candles, Shirts, and Hats. Proudly serve MADCAP coffee, Chocolate Shoppe Super Premium Ice Cream, and carry all kinds of candy. The Little Red Schoolhouse is a familiar and well-loved feature in t... he village of Ada. It has meant many things to many people over its 150+ years. The structure began life as Ada Township's District #3 Schoolhouse in Section 30 and was called the Carl School. Built in 1859, it stood at the northwest corner of what is now Carl and Grand River Drives. Remarkably, the "little red schoolhouse" was painted white. The building served as a school from 1859-1964, educating Ada's youth for 105 years. It was a typical one-room country school with wide plank wood floors, a teacher's desk up front, and a cast-iron wood-burning stove in the center. For much of that time, one teacher taught all eight grades, there would have been 10-40 students, and bathrooms were outside. With consolidation of the Forest Hills schools, one-room schoolhouses became obsolete. The Carl School sat vacant from 1965 until it was put up for sale in 1971. John Gilmore bought the school and had it moved to Ada to the neRead More