Sutter Creek Grammar School, Sutter Creek, California

This photo showing the class of 1893

The Sutter Creek Grammar School of 1894 "5th Room" class, as you see the girl holding the board in the middle.

This photo showing the early schoolhouse with the students playing outside.

With the addition of the wings on the rear building, and a new porch this photo in 1905. The Amador Record wrote: "The educational facilities of Sutter Creek rather excel those usually provided in mining communities". Looking at the Headframe of the Wildman Mine it shows this was a true mining community.

Return to our Sutter Creek Tour or click on our Miner to end the tour

Information, photographs courtesy of the Amador County Archives, The Historical Marker Database, and the Chronicling America Database