Local Schools
from StaniStory: Change and Continuity in Stanislaus County Hosted by McHenry Museum and Historical Society of Modesto, California
Read by Mary Ann Sanders, the first public school in Stanislaus County was established in 1854 near the Orestimba Creek at a place called Newsome's Bridge. At around the same time, Knights Ferry established its first school. In 1874, the first major school building in the county was built in Modesto: the Fourteenth Street School. The county's first high school was established as Modesto High School in 1883; its first teacher and principal was Thomas Downey.
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