Site of First School in Fall River Valley

The detail worth stopping for is in the bronze's middle: a log room twenty feet by thirty, built in 1868 with no floor and no windows, which got its floor and its desks only when a sawmill went up at Dana about 1870. The valley's first mill cut the boards for its first school. Fall River Valley was Ajumawi country, home of the river band of the Pit River people, long before either. The Fall River Teachers' Association and the Fort Crook Historical Society placed the bronze in 1961.

What the plaque says

Site of the First School in Fall River Valley In 1868, near this spot, the first school in Fall River Valley was built. The building was of log construction, 20 feet by 30 feet, with no floor or windows. About 1870 the first sawmill in the valley was built at Dana where lumber was obtained to floor the school house and build school desks. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 759 Plaque placed by the State Park Commission in cooperation with the Fall River Teachers' Association and the Fort Crook Historical Society, May 30, 1961.

Where it stands

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