The Central School District was formed on February 13, 1872.  The land for the first school was acquired from  B. C. Peterson for the sum of $1.00 and recorded on October 17, 1872.  The property was located  five and one-half miles west of Lincoln on Fiddyment Road.  There were no buildings on the  property at the time of the deed transfer, but it is reported in 1882 that the district had a good schoolhouse, well supplied with improved furniture.

The first teacher was H. C. Curtis with M. Waldron, H. W. Whaley and H. Newton the first trustees.  In 1882, G. W. Fuller was in charge of the school where 40 students were attending.

E. B. Heryford was the district clerk..

Some of the students in 1944 were: Ray Widmar, Betty Tindell, Edith Thompson, Mavis Covington, Dan Smith, Joann Dillard, Alice McCartney, Joe and Dick Covington, Cecil Lefever and Lincoln Covington.

Three separate buildings have stood on the Central School site.  We can assume that the first building was constructed shortly after the land was acquired.  Amy Steinman, Ada Widmar and Dee McCartney can remember this building. All agree that it was larger than the two later buildings.

The first was constructed of redwood.  It had windows on both north and south side walls and the front entry faced west toward Fiddyment Road.  A small protective porch overhung the front door.  The large windows must have been the most distinctive feature of the building for they are invariably the first thing mentioned about the structure.  There was a large raised stage at one end and a big pot-bellied stove in the center of the single classroom.  Some say that more than 60 were in attendance at the school at one time.

 . . .William Henry Moore moved the old Central school building to his property at the corner of Fiddyment and Moore road after his home and contents along with the possession of the then teacher Iona Craig burned to the ground in 1919.

. . .the second schoolhouse was replaced in 1920.  It was a frame structure with single row of windows facing north.  An entry was located at the center front with a library on the left and a kitchen on the right inside the entry.  The stove was relocated in the corner of the room.  There were separate cloakrooms and toilets for the girls and boys at the rear of the building.

The school had used outhouses until 1920.  The second school had provisions made for indoor toilets, which were installed in 1921.

. .Some of the community still remember the hand pump which stood under a small roof resting on four posts which later housed the electrical pump.

. . .in 1931 the second school burned to the ground when a fire started in the flue.  For the time classes were held in Charley Maloney’s garage at “Teachers’ Corners”.  Still later they were held in the new woodshed on the school grounds.  This explains the wooden floor in the woodshed which  is still standing at the Central school grounds.

 The third school is located on the foundation of the second.

. . .the last graduate of the Central School was Betty Tindell in 1946.  The new school year of 1946-47 the students from the area joined the Lincoln Unified School District.

. . .the building was used for club meetings, mostly 4-H until 1970 when a group of community minded residents formed a corporation to buy the land and building from the new Western Placer Unified.  They paid $50.00 for both and while the school is long gone, the Central School building is being used for community events much as it was in former years.