The Grizzly Bluff School was an historic school in the farm fields outside Ferndale, California. Students came from the surrounding Eel River valley to attend a one-room school earlier than the construction of the first known school building.

Tom Dix and John Davenport built the current building in 1871, and the ornamental windbreak was planted in 1878. In the 1880s, the building was moved away from the road and placed on a new foundation.

Grizzly Bluff School

In 1900, more space was needed to support a large number of students and the old Presbyterian Church nearby was converted to schoolrooms. By 1976, the school continued only grades one through four. Students from fifth and attended Ferndale Elementary School. Grizzly Bluff School closed its doors for the last time on 30 June 30, 1989.

Grizzly Bluff School

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Victorian architecture in California

One-room schoolhouses in California

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California

Schools in Humboldt County, California

Schoolhouses in the United States

School buildings completed in 1871

History of Humboldt County, California

Defunct schools in California

National Register of Historic Places in Humboldt County, California

1871 establishments in California

Grizzly Bluff School