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School Building at Pleasant View Cemetery

This photo is from the estate of Wallace Young. His notes at the top are as follows:

"The first lumber school building at Pleasant Hill could have been built before 1890. Pleasant Hill between Sherwood & Wilsonville, Oregon is where the children of the pioneer Zumwalts, Bakers, Youngs and older grandchildren went to grade school and Lily Ann Graham and succeeding Graham girls taught. Lily (Mrs. Marion Calvin Young) took this picture in 1918 when building was only still being used in bad weather for funerals at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery on the same grounds, where many of these pioneer families are buried."

From Stephen Baker:

"I distinctly remember this building in the early 1950's. It was used as a gathering place before/after funerals in the rain, as a polling place (I distinctly remember going with my parents to vote there, talking with the people and fascinated with the whole voting process -- it might have been Eisenhower's in 1958. Not sure, but it was in the fall, cold, rainy and getting dark early -- we voted around 5/6PM). Later, it was used as a storage building for the clean-up equipment. It was located close to the road and in the vicinity of the light pole. My great-grandfather (Alison) went to school there, along with his siblings.......walking/riding a horse from their home at Graham's Fy/Bell Road intersection. Later, my grandfather & siblings also went to school there (this would have been around 1905-10)."

I have also spoken with Barb (Murray) Boozier about this building and she guesses it was there until about 1955. She recalls that it was located just downhill (east) of the center gate in the vicinity of what are now Blocks K and J.

More from Stephen Baker:
"My polling recollection could have been Eisenhower's FIRST election in November 1952, but more likely his re-election in November 1956 (given my age of 7 at that time). My first recollection of attending a funeral at PVC was for my elderly g--g-aunt Emma Baker in Dec. 1954, and we took shelter in the old school building before the service. I was 5 at the time, but remember the musty smell and the cold, dank feeling of the unheated room with rough floorboards and ancient cobwebs on the very high ceilings. I have a very graphic memory of certain things. This probably made a big impression on me along with the rainy day, the muddy pile of earth next to the grave, the first funeral I'd ever attended, and the fact that I adored my elderly aunt."