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Picture of Round Mountain Elementary School, a one-room structure with surrounding veranda constructed in 1884. Western Stick architectural style. This building replaced the first schoolhouse, built in 1872 and destroyed by fire in the early 1880s. The replacement schoolhouse was first situated on the east side of Fancher Creek, just north of Shaw Avenue. It was later moved to the intersection of Ashlan and Madsen avenues, and enlarged by moving three of the outer walls even with the roofline. The school was vacated in 1947, torn down and its lumber used to build a private residence. The Round Mountain District was created in 1873, annexed the Eureka District in 1904 and a portion of the Fancher District in 1914, and merged with the Fairview and Gray Colony districts in 1947 to form the Fairmont Union District. This entity, in turn, was incorporated into the Sanger Unified School District in 1965.
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