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Book Title: History Of Butte County

SCHOOLS IN BIDWELL TOWNSHIP.

    We have already noted that the first school in the county was at Bidwell;
but after the removal of the county-seat, and the decline of that town, the
records make no mention of any school at Bidwell for some time, and no money is
apportioned to Bidwell township or district until January 1, 1866, when the
district is credited with fifty-three census children. November 8, 1862. the
supervisors formed what was called Mountain Cottage school district, in Bidwell
township, but it seems to have been an abortive effort. May 9, 1866, the
supervisors made an order dividing Bidwell district by a line from Bald rock
diagonally across by Berry creek to north fork of Feather river, and forming in
the southern half the Canyon creek district. February 9, 1867, there was an
order that all the settlers along Berry creek be transferred from Canyon creek
to Bidwell district; but May 9, 1868, the old line was again established. It
could not be possible for any line to be satisfactory which ran through a
settlement so far away from either school as the people along Berry creek are.
The trouble was relieved on the twenty-fifth of August, 1874, by the formation
of Bald Rock district, which included all the families along and adjacent to
Berry creek in a separate school district.

    BIDWELL DISTRICT, retaining the old name, is the northern part of the
township, with its school-house one mile south of the Mountain House hotel.
    The school-house is getting old, but has recently been repaired and
furnished with the best patent desks.

    CANYON CREEK DISTRICT, which has its school at the old town of Bidwell, has
a pleasant little school-house, nicely furnished, and maintains a school of
about a dozen pupils.

    BALD ROCK DISTRICT was formed August 25, 1874, and includes the country on
both sides of Berry creek. A plain but comfortable school-house was built,
located about two miles east of the Berry-creek hotel, near the ranch of G. W.
Reagan. In the spring of 1881, this house was burned, supposed to be the work of
an incendiary; but being well insured, as the law requires, was soon replaced by
a better one, and this latter one is well supplied with patent furniture.


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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