Mason Street School
The Schoolhouse is 4-feet by 30-feet, 720 square feet with a 10-foot ceiling. The first teacher was Mary Chase Walker (1828–1899) born in Massachusetts. Walker graduated in 1861 from State Normal School in Framingham, Massachusetts and had a job teaching in Massachusetts. At the end of the American Civil War in 1865 Walker came to San Francisco, not finding a job there she travelling to San Diego. She took the teaching job for $65 a month (about $1,224.00 a month in today's dollars). Walker had 35 students of ages 4 to 17 in the single One room schoolhouse. Walker had the job for 11 months, when Walker married the school superintendent Ephraim Morse.
A historical marker was place as the site by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and The Historical Markers Committee in 1955.
See also
- California Historical Landmarks in San Diego County
- Adobe Chapel of The Immaculate Conception
- Casa de Carrillo House
- Casa de Estudillo
- Casa de Cota
References
- ^ "538 #538". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- ^ "Education on the Frontier: The Mason Street Schoolhouse". CA State Parks.
- ^ San Diego Magazine. CurtCo/SDM LLC. July 2006. p. 1. ISSN 0036-4045.
- ^ "Life in 1865 at Old Town's Mason Street School". Cool San Diego Sights. 23 October 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Mason Street School Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.