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Book Title: History Of Butte County

SCHOOLS IN DAYTON TOWNSHIP.

    The territory now forming Dayton township was set off from Chico as a
separate school district March 2, 1863. Albert Wakefield, who taught in 1863 and
'64, was the first teacher. A good house was built, which has since been added
to and improved. The district reported 171 children at the first census taken
after it was formed, but the formation of Butte valley, Franklin, Roble and
Pratt from time to time took off its families. Despite these losses, the
district is yet able to report more than one hundred census children, and
maintains two teachers.

    BUTTE VALLEY DISTRICT was formed May 19, 1863, but does not appear in the
census report until 1865, when it returned ninety census children. Its territory
extended over a large scope of country on both sides of Butte creek. Other
districts have been formed in its original bounds, until now the district is
closely confined around Durham station, where the school-house stands. The
district has a good, large house, and it is well furnished.

    ROBLE DISTRICT was formed May 22, 1876, on the west side of Butte Valley
district, between Durham and Dayton. It has small territory, but maintains a
good school of from fifteen to twenty pupils, in a good house, well furnished.

    PRATT DISTRICT, so named from the fact that its territory lies within the
bounds of the Pratt grant, the property of Judge O. C. Pratt, was formed May 21,
1881, and is now in the midst of its first term of school, with Miss Anna Daly
as teacher.

    FRANKLIN DISTRICT, formed in 1869, occupied the Bowers ranch and Parrott
grant, south of Dayton. The district continued several years with a very small
school, and was finally adandoned.


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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