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The Great Backyard Bird Count

Things To Do

Schoolhouse Flat

Beginners Walk to Meet in Sonoma

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Schoolhouse Flat

One of the regular stops when birding Audubon's Mayacamas Mountain Sanctuary is Schoolhouse Flat. Robert Evans has provided the following clipping describing the area's namesake.

From the Russian River Flag, October 15, 1874
"About two miles north of [the Hood Ranch], a new redwood schoolhouse appears, perched up demurely alongside the Foss road. The presiding divinity of this temple is Miss Ida Clayton, the young lady in whose honor the Ida Clayton mine is named. Although there are 40 children in the Pine Flat District, less than half that number attend."