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Collection Title: Felta School records,
Date (inclusive): 1925-1934
Identification: SPC.00067
Creator:
Felta School (Healdsburg, Calif.)
Physical Description:
1 volume
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Sonoma County Library Archives
c/o Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library
725 Third Street
Santa Rosa, CA,
Email:
history@sonomalibrary.org
Phone:
(707) 308-3212
Abstract: This collection contains register of students for Felta School in Dry Creek Valley, near Healdsburg, California.
Attendance records from this school indexed in:
Early school attendance records of Sonoma County, California, beginning 1858. Westminster, Md. : Heritage Books, 2004-2007
Biography/Organization History
Felta School was built near the confluence of Felta Creek and Mill Creek and named for Felta Miller, an early settler, who
homesteaded his ranch about a mile up Felta Creek, and the green barn at the end of the county road that passed the school
site was generally accepted as the original mill that Mill Creek was named for. It is believed to date from the Mexican era.
Harmon Heald, a hand who worked in the mill, opened a store at a nearby crossroads, and began the town of Healdsburg. J.G.
Mothorn, who founded Mill Stone Valley Ranch, on which the barn still stands, had portions of his property landscaped by his
friend, Luther Burbank. Some of Burbank’s plantings, which included guavas, loquats, grafted plums, and a lily tree, survive
unto the present day. Mothorn’s son used stones from a cobblestone quarry on the Mothorn ranch to build the foundation of
Felta School. The school, while under construction, survived the 1906 earthquake.
On November 27, 1951, residents of the area west of the Russian River near Healdsburg voted to close their five one-room
Sonoma County rural schools -- Felta, Daniels,Junction, Lafayette and Mill Creek. The 85 students from the former districts
began the 1956-1957 school year at the new West Side Union School, located a short distance from the old Felta School.
Felta School has since been restored and is located at 1034 Felta Road, Healdsburg, California.
Register of students (attendence records) for Felta School, located southwest of Healdsburg, California.
Arranged chronologically in a single series.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Felta School (Healdsburg, Calif.)
Schools--California--Healdsburg
School records
Registers (lists)
Archival materials
Important Information for Users of the Collection
Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be
found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at
707 308-3212 to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library
Conditions of Use
Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.
Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes
that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its
copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws
of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and
reuse information at
https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo
Felta School records, 1925-1934. SPC.00067, Sonoma County Archives, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, California.