OLIVE SCHOOL

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On April 2, 1888 the Olive School District was formed from the Rincon District. School was held in a lean-to shack 1/2 mile west of, what at that time, was the junction of the State Highway and the Lower Lake-Kelseyville Road. In 1889 a small school was built nearby, south of the present State Highway and on the first little knoll east of the old road that goes up McIntire Creek. The school continued until February 8, 1898 when it closed and the remaining pupil went to Uncle Sam School in Kelseyville.

Indians told local families that at one time an Indian Chief had died and was buried about 15 feet west of the crown of the hill and about where the present State Highway is in front of where the school was located.

Bud Sherwood was enthusiastic about olives and was always talking olives. When the School District was formed he suggested it be named the Olive School, so it was.

Although school was not being held there anymore, the school building was apparently affected by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. There are several geological publications that refer to this surface rupture in 1906. The one that is most detailed is the 1908 Report of the California State Earthquake Investigation Commission, by Andrew Lawson. The reference to the school is as follows: "On the right side of the road, about 100 feet south of the cracks, stands a schoolhouse. It has been slightly tilted to the south. The chimney, made of terra cotta, is bent to the south. "The chimneys on the house of Mr. Bates fell."   The Bates place was described in the Lawson book as being about 3.75 miles south of Kelseyville. (this item about the earthquake is courtesy of Dean Enderlin)

(From Board of Education minutes:)
March 10,1905 - Sheriff authorized to sell Olive School building.
May 04, 1905 - Order to sell Olive School house rescinded.




OLIVE SCHOOL GRADUATES

1892 - Ferguson, Minnie

1895 - (Minnie Ferguson, teacher)   - Sadie Dexter



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