Koosharem Amusement Hall

A town this small still wanted a room big enough to dance in. Koosharem's people built this wood-frame amusement hall themselves in 1914, fitting it out with a gymnasium, a stage, a kitchen, and a basement — one building to hold everything a community did together. Over the years it filled with dances and plays, basketball games, programs, and, once movies came, the flicker of a screen. Its best-loved use was a yearly one: the Koosharem Old Folks Party, a town reunion that drew the valley's people home again and again. The hall was the whole social calendar.

What the plaque says

Constructed in 1914 by the community. The wood frame hall contains a gymnasium, stage, kitchen and basement. As a community recreation center, the hall was used for dances, plays, basketball games, programs, and movies. It served as the annual meeting place for the Koosharem Old Folks Party, a well-known traditional town reunion.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fishlake National Forest — 7.1 mi
  Home to Pando — the largest living organism on Earth
• Big Rock Candy Mountain — 16 mi
  The real mountain that inspired the famous hobo folk song
• Fremont Indian State Park — 25 mi
  The largest known Fremont Indian village ever discovered

More markers nearby

• Pioneers, Settlers of Grass Valley — steps away
• Indian Peace Treaty/Cedar Grove — 4.8 mi
• Peace Treaty with Fish Lake Indians — 7.9 mi
• The First Sawmill — 15 mi