First schoolhous in Tehama County. The Principal was Mr. Saunders.
"The building was built in the Fall of 1855. On the corner of Oak and Jefferson Streets; present site of the County Jail. V. P Baker was the contractor and builder. The building was built of bricks, cost of $3000.00 and was the first public school building erected in the County. Mr. J.D. George was employed as teacher. The bell was purchased at that time and which was still in use in the new public school. Building was purchased in San Francisco and freighted up free by Capt. J.S. Johnson, Steamboat agent. A part of the subscription money for its purchase could never be collected. The amount of $60.00 was advanced by Butler and Webb upon a promise of repayment, but it never was. During the school year of 1872, the old public school building in Red Bluff was sold to the county for $600 and a new two-story brick building was erected on Oak Street, at a cost of about $17,000.00 with furniture.
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Tehama
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The region’s earliest non-Indigenous settlers arrived in the 1840s, when Mexican land grants were awarded to pioneers such as Robert Hasty Thomes (Rancho Saucos), Albert Gallatin Toomes (Rancho Rio de los Molinos), William George Chard (Rancho Las Flores), and Job Francis Dye (Rancho Primer Cañon o Rio de Los Berrendos). These ranchos laid the foundation for farming, ranching, and settlement.
Tehama County’s history is intertwined with notable frontier figures, including Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, and William B. Ide, the only president of the short-lived California Republic. Red Bluff, the county seat, grew into a hub of trade and river transport, shaping the county’s economic and cultural identity.
