The Spring School - Yreka, CA
N 41° 43.409 W 122° 38.301
10T E 530080 N 4619138
This former one-room school building was relocated to the Siskiyou County Historical Society Outdoor Museum in 1977.
Waymark Code: WMV7JY
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/09/2017
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The following is taken from an interpretive display in front of the building:
This little schoolhouse was in use from 1890-1949, and was located 13 miles southwest of the town of Dorris on Sam's Neck Road at the foot of School House Hill. In 1899 Mary M. McCraig was the teacher; 10 students attended school for 6 months. The school building was donated by the Butte Valley School District and brought here in 1977. A typical example of a one-room school that once dominated the country. It is a Point of Historical Interest, Reg. #Sis-003.
I also located a blog site dedicated to all the historic structures in the outdoor museum including this structure and an article reads:
THE SPRING SCHOOL BUILDING
The Spring School building was in use from 1890-1949 and was located 13 miles southwest of Dorris on the Sam's Neck Road at the foot of School House Hill. In 1899 Mary M. McCraig was the teacher, and school was attended for six months by ten pupils. The school house was donated by the Butte Valley Unified School District and brought to the Outdoor Museum in 1977. It is a typical example of a one-room school house that once dominated the country.
The following information and black/white photos are from the Siskiyou County School History page linked from the website of the Siskiyou County Office of Education (go to "Departments" and then to the "Instructional Media Center" page). Information about other schools and districts mentioned in the article below can be found on the Siskiyou County School History webpage cited above. The photo in color shows the school as it sits in the Outdoor Museum. Visitors can enter the school to see how the interior might have looked when the school was being used.