MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

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(excerpts from Lake County Historical Society Pomo Bulletin; by Phyllis Shortbridge Parola)

On August 3, 1868 the Mountain School District was formed from the Rincon School District, which was south of Kelseyville. The original school house was located in a draw, about 150 feet west of Wildcat Road. (Wildcat Road has been moved a little).
The location of the Mountain School was about 2 ½ miles west of the Salmina's Resort, which is located on Highway 175 about 11 miles northwest of Middletown.
Among the first teachers of the school were Joe Layman, Betty Bradley, Marcus P. Baker, Victoria McNair, Martha J. McNair, A. B. Hughes, Mrs. Voris, Julia C. Sherwood, Kate Martin, Mr. Depenser, Maude Shirley Pardee, Hettie Irwin and Minnie Ferguson.
The school was moved to a location halfway between the Schoenberger and Auschwitz homes in 1890. The Schoenberger place was also known as the Ferguson place. The Fergusons gave the school a 99 year lease on the property, with the understanding that it would go back to the Ferguson estate if the school was ever abandoned.
They used it as a summer school and children came from the Schuster place to attend. In the winter the Schuster place ran a private school and most of the pupils attended school there. Mr. Herrons lived on the Schuster place and he taught the school. The Olive School District was added to the Mountain District on February 5, 1898.
June 4, 1901, the Mountain School District voted $600 in bonds for a school and furnishings. The school was moved to the Schoenberger place, where a bigger, more modern school was built. There was a bell tower built on the school, but the trustees could never agree on the size of a bell they wanted, so there was never a bell in the tower. (This school was turned into a private home and burned in the 1950s).
After a few years at this location the school was moved to the building that was later to become the Mountain Improvement Club building, (next to the CDF fire station). The records show that the school was still going in 1920. The school records after this date were destroyed in a fire at the home of Mrs. Cary, and no copies were found. But, a former teacher, Marion Butler Williams Favre wrote information about the years that she taught there, which was 1934 to 1943.
The Mountain School district contracted with Kelseyville Union Grammar School to educate the children for the year 1947-48, and then joined the Kelseyville School on July 1, 1948.

MOUNTAIN SCHOOL GRADUATES


(1893 to 1898 were listed as "Mountain View" School)

1893 - Vinton Peterson

1897 - Lottie Schwartz,   Bessie Sallee

1898 - Maude Rantz,   Myrtle Sallee

1901 - (Teacher - Minerva Ferguson)

1905 - Florence Williamson

1907 - Wesley Cary

1909 - (A. L. Anthony, Teacher)   Leslie McIntire

1910 - Ezra Burgett

1911 - Alice Cary,   Clyde Wilds

1912 - Geneva L. McIntire,   Irene Shaul

1913 - Eanswythe Hildebrand

1914 - Alice Hesse

1915 - Warren Fees

1916 - John Hildebrand,   Raymond Shaul

1918 - Katherine Hildebrand

1919 - Alma Wagner

1922 - Jesse Herron,   Minnie Nieman,   Clarence St. John

1923 - Dorothy Hildebrand

1924 - Luetta McDow,   Frank Schoenberger

1928 - Thomas Campbell,   Bill Lamm,   Ferdinand Schoenberger

1929 - Margaret Campbell,   Edith St. John,   Lovina St. John,   Richard Wagner

1931 - Lois Jean McIntire,  Marie Schoenberger,   Mary Jane Stevenson

1932 - Geraldine Anne Campbell

1933 - August Knodt,   Jean St. John,   Harry Taylor to be granted diploma upon completion of work in arithmatic

1934 - Violet Alice Cary

1935 - Rosemary Cary

1936 - Lillian Fedix, Elsie McIntire

1937 - Lorraine Salmina

1939 - Ester Mary Salmina,   Elton Frederick Vickers,   Junior Clyde Wilds

1940 - Patricia Lee McIntire

1941 - Glenn Wilds,   Roberta Stevenson

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