Lambert School records, 1907
Finding aid author: Mark Cooper.
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Published Feb 28, 2011
Lambert School records, 1907
Sonoma County Library
Collection Title: Lambert School records,
Date (inclusive): 1907
Identification: SPC.00072
Creator:
Lambert 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 school registers of the Lambert School, located in Dry Creek Valley northwest of 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
Lambert School was located one-half mile below the Dry Creek Store, built 1857. The site was at 3001 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg,
California.
Schools were established early in Dry Creek Valley, because most of the farm families had young children. The Manzanita School
was evidently the first to be erected in the valley, when, in January of 1855, the commissioners hired a teacher at the District
#2 (the southern part of Mendocino Township) school for three months at a rate of $4.00 per pupil per month. Located a few
hundred yards north of the present Manzanita schoolhouse, it was built at a cost of $200, with donated labor (Dry Creek Neighbors
Club 1979:1).
The 1861 Report of the School Marshals noted a total of 249 children in Dry Creek, 55 under four years of age, 104 between
four and 18, four between 18 and 21; 86 had been born in California. By 1863 four schools had been established in the valley:
Dry Creek, Lafayette, Mill Creek, and Manzanita (Dry Creek Neighbors Club 1979:2,9).
Soon thereafter state law encouraged building school houses three miles apart to accommodate horse and buggy transportation,
and so that children would not have to walk so far to attend.
Invariably with one room and one teacher, grades were one through eight, and students studied during class and played at recess.
Games played at the Dry Creek School included over-the- school-house, tag, run-sheep-run, hide-and-go-seek, marbles, baseball,
and red-line (Dry Creek Neighbors Club 1979:13).
As the closest high school was in Healdsburg, students either had to walk or go by horseback or horse and buggy, or stay in
Healdsburg during the week. In 1917, however, Frederick Patronak, one of the school trustees, felt so strongly that all the
children should have the opportunity of an education that he furnished a bus to take them to school The bus, driven by his
granddaughter Elizabeth Allman St. Clair, was a hand-cranked Ford. It was driven for two or three years, and then the children
were chauffeured by car (Dry Creek Neighbors Club 1979:34).
School registers from Lambert School, located in Dry Creek Valley, northwest of Healdsburg, California.
Arranged chronologically in a single series.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Lambert School (Healdsburg, Calif.)
Schools--California--Healdsburg
School records
Registers (lists)
Archival materials
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Lambert School records, 1907. SPC.00072, Sonoma County Archives, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, California.
SCL Special Collections Control Number: SPC.00072
School registers
1907
Note:
ARCHIVES ROW 14 BIN 7
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 volume