This school was east of Wellington just across the Weld County line. The school was open in 1914-15.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Antelope Springs School
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The little old stone school house was being torn down. No one seems to remember just when the building was constructed, but records show that the district was organized April 28,1886. The teacher taught all grades. Pupils numbered from 40 down, all sizes and ages. In 1913, the district was consolidated with Laporte.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Bellvue School
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The Old Berthoud School was at one point sitting on the Wilson Farm approximately 1 ¼ - 1 ½ miles south of 1st Street and Highway 287 in Berthoud, Colorado on County Road 15A. The original log cabin schoolhouse was built in1873. In 1880 there were 15 pupils in the school. In 1882 or 1883 the town of Berthoud was started and a brick school was built in town in1887. In 1914 another room was added on to the original brick building making it a two room schoolhouse with two teachers. The building has a coat room on each end and large coal stoves in the corner of each room. There was a cistern outside for water. The Old Berthoud School was no longer used after 1949.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Old Berthoud School
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A photo shows seven members of the Young Citizens League doing a ceremonial candle-lighting for the state YCL convention in Denver.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Lower Boxelder School
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Built in 1883 on the Maxwell Ranch in the upper Boxelder Canyon, north of Fort Collins, this one-room school house was one of four in rural District #33. It was about five miles east of Highway 287 on the Granite Canyon road. That school District served a very large area, with many of the children traveling several miles to attend classes. The funds were derived from the District and the amount in the treasury determined the length of the school year. There was a single teacher and usually no more than 10 students. The school was used continuously from the date it was built until the final classes were taught in the summer of 1950. In 1976 the school house was donated to the city by CSU which had inherited the Maxwell ranch and moved to the Museum courtyard in 1977.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Upper Boxelder School
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The Buckeye School was located north of Fort Collins. It was started in 1925 as a two room school house.. Several schools consolidated in 1926 with some of the students coming to Buckeye. In July of 1960 the District was reorganized and Buckeye school was closed. The building has been used by the Buckeye community for gatherings and community functions.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Buckeye School
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This was originally a white one-room school northeast of Fort Collins. Students were attending in1893-94. In 1906, a large brick structure was constructed.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - District #35 School
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Fossil Creek School was built in 1884. On May 20, 1910 there was a special program presented by Attie Moore who was the teacher. A copy of the program survives. In 1955 it was annexed to District #5.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Fossil Creek School
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Spring School had originally been called Greenacre School. It was built for the education of a few ranch children in 1898. The original site was up the valley of Boxelder Creek, about 2 or 3 miles west of County Road #21. It was called Greenacre School because it was on a parcel of land owned by the Greenacre brothers. Homesteaders began moving into the north country and the school was moved in 1914 or 1915 to better serve the children. By the 1930s, the school was no longer used and was in dilapidated condition.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Greenacre-Spring School
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Built before 1892, the original Harmony School was called Muddy School at first. In 1892 there were about 30 students. The current building was constructed in 1931.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Harmony School
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The area where Horsetooth Reservoir is today west of Fort Collins was once an active quarry town. In 1882, the first frame schoolhouse was built. The following year, the quarry owner donated a hill near his house for the new stone schoolhouse. In 1898 the enrollment reached 30. Quarry work halted with the Panic of 1898. The Stout Post Office closed in 1908. The school served other purposes after that.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Highland (Spring Canyon) School
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The Lone Tree School was started in 1884 south and west of Loveland. The district was consolidated with district 2 in 1920. The original school sat on a knoll on South County Road 21 and was deteriorating by 1980. An interested group then moved it to the North Lake Park and made considerable improvements.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Lone Tree School
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The actual date of this school's construction is unclear but pupils were noted by 1881. The brick building replaced the old frame one. The district became a part of Cache La Poudre in 1924 and the building was not well cared for. In 1986 it was purchased and fixed up.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Michaud School
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The first log school house was built in 1873. In 1904, there were so many students that they built a new schoolhouse about a quarter of a mile west of the old schoolhouse. In 1919, the old schoolhouse was torn down and the lumber used to build a new schoolhouse at the east end of Pinewood Lake. In 1957, the Pinewood School was consolidated with R2J and the little school house was not used for its original purpose anymore.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Pinewood School
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The Pleasant Valley School was built in 1867 of beige colored stone and was about 6 miles northwest of Fort Collins. In 1886 the residents of Bellview formed their own school. In 1912, the La Porte district was consolidated ending 45 years of education in the hand-hewn stone school.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Pleasant Valley School
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In 1881 a group of pioneer settlers were offered a piece of land at the corner of South Shields and Drake for a school and the white frame school house opened later that year. By 1897 a new school was needed. The original school was moved and was part of a home until it demolition in 1986. A new brick one-room structure was built. In 1905, a second room was added. In the late 1920s a partial basement was excavated and a furnace installed. Finally, in 1959, the district was surrounded by Poudre R-1 and was absorbed by that district and the building demolished.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Pleasant View School
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School District 26 was established in 1882. James Ezra Plummer gave a plot of land and a temporary structure served as a school until 1906. At that time a new school was constructed and given the name Plummer School. It is located on the northwest corner of Vine Drive and Summit View Drive. It served as a school until 1960 when the district was reorganized. The building has been restored and has had several owners since then.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Plummer School
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The Rocky Ridge School was located north of Fort Collins along Colorado 1 north of Terry Lakes. It is referred to in 1936 and again in 1960. There were plans to sell it in 1984.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Rocky Ridge School
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This school was about 20 miles northeast of Wellington. It was a one room frame school. There were 16 children attending the school in 1916. When the school district was reorganized the school was sold and moved to Waverly.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Round Butte School
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In the early 1900s and through the 20s, there were several schools in the ranch country close to the Wyoming border. It closed in 1924.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Soapstone School
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This school was located about a mile east of the cement plant, which didn't exist then. Later it was moved to Laporte.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Sunset School
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The first schoolhouse in Wellington town limits was a two-story building built around 1902. The old frame building was replaced by a brick building in 1917. That was replaced by the new Eyestone Elementary School in 1973.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Wellington School
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Wellington High School was built in 1926. The last senior class left in 1964. It was then used as a junior high until it was torn down in 1993.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Wellington High School
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File contains Windsor School Roster.
LC - SCHOOLS - Rural - Windsor School
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Preserving the history of Fort Collins, Colorado & the Cache la Poudre region
