History of the
School House Bedroom
The master bedroom of my home in
Lamoille was once a school house. Known as the Humboldt
School, it first sat in a field in Lower Lamoille across from
the Pixley Ranch home. This was in 1866. Later it
stood on land donated by rancher, Henry Voight. It sat on
a level stretch of land on a "foundation" of four whitewashed
boulders. As was the custom, this rural school was located
near a creek.
The school was in continuous
operation until it closed in the 1950's. After this time
it was incorporated in the log cabin house which Zeke Daley of
Elko built on property across from Lamoille Grove.
This was told to me by
Marion Blume. We went together one warm summer afternoon*
to the original school site which she was able to locate.
Once we had found it, we sat down and had a picnic lunch while
she recalled stories of those school days.
Marion said that the
children walked or rode horses to school. In winter they
went by horse-drawn sled. Some winters there was so much
snow that the sled went over the tops of the fence posts.
Two students that she
mentioned were Amanda Buzzetti and her own daughter, Joy Blume.
*1975 or 1976
