RINCON SCHOOL

Rincon School District was formed from the Kelsey Creek School District, probably between 1861 and 1867, after Lake County became a county, since it is not mentioned in the Napa County records. The first little schoolhouse was 2 1/2 miles south of Kelseyville, located between Kelsey Drive and Kelsey Creek. After a few years a good school was built on the west bank of Kelsey Creek, 2 miles south of town. The school district extended from one mile south of Kelseyville, southwest to the county line, southeast to Mt. St. Helena, and back to Mt. Konocti. The bell tower was added sometime after about 1898. The teacher, up until that time, used a good sized hand bell.

The size of the District was reduced later when Mountain, Highland and Alcove School Districts were formed from it. The Rincon Disctrict consolidated with the Kelseyville School District in 1919, and in April 1934, the trustees of the Kelseyville Grammar School District sold the building to S. L. Hummel for $50.80.

Kelseyville Sun, December 2, 1926
STORM RAZES OLD RINCON SCHOOL HOUSE
One of the results of the heavy storm of last week was the toppling over of the old school house in the Rincon district, as reported to The Sun by Dan Mahony, a resident of that section. This was the old original Rincon school house, according to Mr. Mahony, who states that the building was constructed about 1868. It was located on the property of the late Dan Chapman, and had been used for a number of years as a tool house.

RINCON SCHOOL GRADUATES

1895 - (Fred Dorn, teacher) - Leta Dorn,   Mable Kyle

1898 - Frances Kyle,   U. P. Laufenberg, Uncy[?] Laufenberg

1905 - Clarence Kyle

1908 - Bertha Staheli,   Janet Stokes

1910 - Victor Barnes,   Harold Smith,   Marie Staheli

1911 - Sam Gross,   Leonard Olson

1912 - Myrtle Akers,   Mary Berry,   Bonnie Denio,   Linnie D. Denio

1913 - Viola Gross,   Sara Keithly,   Henry Mauldin

1914 - Seth Keithley,   Paul Schulthess,   Emmett Wilkinson

June 1914 - Promoted to 8th Grade - Mabel Berry

1916 - Ilma Reynolds,   John Staheli,   Olive Upton

1917 - Emma Edmundson,   Salome Whitlow

1918 - Edith Gross,   Helen Olsen

1919 - Martin Chapman

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