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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

   Petaluma has always nurtured its system of public schools. Its corps of
teachers bave been the best that could be procured, and its school-buildings are
a credit as well as an ornament to the place. The high school was first opened
in July, 1873, Professor C. E. Hutton in charge. Dr. F. H. Rose succeeded him.
Dr. Rose resigned in 1874, and J. W. McClymonds, the present incumbent, was
elected. Miss Anna Holbrook is his assistant. The number of pupils in this
department is about sixty. The high-school building is situated on D street; it
was built as a private academy for Professor Lippitt, who used it for that
purpose until it was purchased by the board of education for a high school. The
style of architecture is gothic; it is two stories in height, contains four
study-rooms, a library-room, an ante-room, and halls. The grounds are ornamented
with evergreens, flowers, and grass plots.

   M. E. C. Munday is principal of the grammar and primary departments. Mrs. J.
E. Woodworth has charge of the second grade; Miss Eliza Robinson has charge of
the third grade; Miss Marilla Camm has charge of the fourth grade; Miss Rosa
Haskins of the fifth grade; Miss Emma S. Elder of the sixth grade; Miss Sallie
E. Hall of the seventh grade; Miss Hattie Fuller of the eighth grade. Miss I. E.
Anderson has charge of a class taught in the high-school building, belonging to
the fifth grade of the primary department. On the hill, in the northeast part of
the city, there is a school of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the
primary department, in charge of Miss Clara Eddy. In East Petaluma there is a
school for the same grades, in charge of Miss Helen A Singley. Miss Annie Camm
has charge of the school on D street, for colored children. ^The total number of
teachers in grammar and primary department, thirteen. The grammar school is a
large two-story brick building, located on the corner of B and Fifth streets. It
was built in 1859, and since then has undergone several changes in its interior
arrangements, to accommodate the increasing number of pupils. The building
contains eight rooms, of which four are on the upper, and four on the ground
floor. It has a seating capacity for about four hundred pupils. The grounds are
enclosed by a high board fence, inside of which is a row of silver-leaf maple
trees, which add much to the appearance of the building and its surroundings.
The salaries of the teachers vary from sixty to one hundred and fifty dollars
per month.

   The value of school property is as follows:

   High school-building                            $15,000
   Grammar school-building and lot                  30,000
   Outside school-houses and lots, about             8,000
                                                   _______
   Total value                                     $53,000

   The number of pupils is from six hundred and eighty to seven hundred and
twenty, and the cost of maintaining the schools is thirteen thousand dollars per
annum.

   The school department has been governed by a board of education since 1870,
composed of five members. The present board is Messrs. James Singley, G. W.
Edelman, W. H. Dalton, N. M. Hedges and F. T. Maynard.

   The people of Petaluma respond always to the needs of the public schools, and
no complaining is heard in regard to any tax to support them.


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HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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