Historical Marker · No. 625
Pioneer Schoolhouse
Quincy, Plumas County · California
Erected by Plumas Pioneer Parlor No. 219, Native Daughters of the Golden West, 1957
The school ran for a hundred years. Built in 1857 on what is now the Pioneer Elementary campus, it opened with nineteen pupils and a teacher, S. A. Ballou, and was still teaching kindergarten when the Native Daughters put up this bronze in 1957; the register froze that year into its own text. In 1974 the building was moved about a mile west to the county fairgrounds, off the ground it had stood on for more than a century. The county museum opens it for events and for the August fair.
What the plaque says
Plumas County's First School House This is the original pioneer school house. Erected in 1857 Trustees -- J. W. Thompson & J. C. Church Teacher -- Mr. S. A. Ballou - Nineteen scholars This plaque was dedicated by Plumas Pioneer Parlor 219, Native Daughters of the Golden West. 1957
Where it stands
39.93891, -120.91565 · Directions
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