Crooked Finger School - Scotts Mills, OR - Former Schools on Waymarking.com

School-aged children have lived in the Crooked Finger area (approximately 5 miles southeast of Scotts Mills) as early as the 1860s, but the official establishment of Crooked Finger School District 97 was on February 21, 1881. By July, 1882, 37 students attended school between the ages of "over 4 and under 20," and by July, 1885 the number had increased to 48.

The Crooked Finger Road used to run on the west side of the school until a boundary dispute in 1890, when the route was redirected, passing the school on the east.

The original school building was abandoned about 1893, and classes began meeting in the nearby Prune Ridge Friends Church, (constructed in October, 1892) likely because of the relative geographical concentration of families in proximity to that location as well as the dilapidated condition of the former school building. In the late 1890s, classes were once again moved, out of the church and into a new building, constructed a short distance northward of its present location. The school changed sites once more in 1951, shifting southward a bit, to where it rests today.

On May 31, 1970 the district merged with Scotts Mills School District 73J, and the school building was used for a few years as a community club before being converted into a private home.

(Research done by Barbara LeDoux)

Address: Crooked Finger Road Scotts Mills, United States 97375 Web Site: Not listed

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