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Book Title: History Of Butte County

SCHOOLS IN WYANDOTTE TOWNSHIP.

    As we have already stated in the general history, Wyandotte had the first
school organized in that part of the county, and on the sixth of May, 1857,
Bangor and Salem districts were set off from it. The Evansville district was
then included in Oro township, and as its territory is principally so now, we
shall leave its history to be taken with the other schools of that township.

    WYANDOTTE DISTRICT.—In 1863, the school was furnished with new, home-made
furniture. In 1869, the building was enlarged to 20x38 feet. Mr. Wm. Dunstone,
the present clerk of the board in this district, is probably the most
experienced trustee in the county, and, in the judgment of the present writer,
the best in all respects. Under Mr. Dunstone's faithful and intelligent
management, the district has been always supplied with the best teachers to be
found, and has had an uninterrupted prosperity. The manner in which the library
fund is appropriated and the library kept, is worthy of especial mention. In the
spring of 1879, the people of the district voted a special tax for building
purposes, and during the summer of that year the old building, which had been
the first in the county, was taken down, and in its place a large and handsome
one erected, with large library-room, two ante-rooms, and three porticos. This
building cost, in round numbers, $1,500, and the elegant furniture with which it
is supplied cost $300 more. Two acres of ground where the house stands are
deeded to the district.

    BANGOR DISTRICT.—There has been probably less change of trustees and
teachers in this than in any other district in the county. The school has had
uninterrupted prosperity. The large and comfortable school-house, furnished in
the best style, stands on an eminence in the midst of the village.

    SALEM DISTRICT began in 1861, with L. Duncum as teacher. In 1879, the
district voted a tax for building purposes. The old house, which stood on a dry,
barren hill, some distance to the north-east of Mr. Nurbrot's place, was
disposed of, and a large and substantial new school-house built at a site a mile
south, in a beautiful grove of oaks. The school is supplied with elegant
furniture and all needed apparatus.

    UPHAM DISTRICT was organized in 1862, with Isaac Upham, after whom the
district was named, as teacher, in 1863. The district has always been in good
hands and well managed. They have a good, substantial building, centrally
located, and the school has had steady prosperity.

    FAIRVIEW DISTRICT.—Last Chance, as it was at first called, but now known by
the more euphonious, though perhaps less significent, title of Fairview
district, was formed by action of the supervisors, December 31, 1869. The
district has a good house, well situated and elegantly furnished. Trustees Jones
and Brager, the present incumbents, are faithful to their trust.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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