Red Brick Grammar School

Calaveras County · Division of Forestry Station, Altaville · location approximate

This brick building, erected in 1848 with funds raised by a dance in the Billiard Saloon of the N. R. Prince Building (which still stands, 1955) is one of the oldest schools of California. Used as a school until 1950. It was then replaced by the present Mark Twain Elementary School, in Altaville.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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