School’s Out…House Traditional Cache
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White Oaks Schoolhouse:
The two-story four-room schoolhouse, currently under the care of the non-profit White Oaks Historical Association, was built in 1895 when White Oaks was reportedly the second largest city in the state (behind Santa Fe). Residents pitched in $10,000 to build the schoolhouse on land donated by the state’s first governor. The last classes taught in White Oaks were in 1942.
Larue Wetzel, a retired Carrizozo teacher, was a student here in the late 1930s:
"We came to school with a bag, we didn’t have backpacks back then, & we always had our Big Chief tablet & a pencil, pulling a tablet out of a bag, & it was up to us to supply our own pencils. School always started the day after Labor Day. It used to be that there were a lot of empty houses here in White Oaks. In the summer the families would be out on the ranches & then in late August they’d come in & fix up an old house & the women, the mothers & children, would live here so the kids could go to school. The men would ride in whenever they could to be with them. Some people say that you don’t get a good education (in a four room schoolhouse like White Oaks), but we’ve got teachers, inventors & scientists, & lots of important people who came through this school."
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