Galena Creek Schoolhouse

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Galena Creek Schoolhouse
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Location16000 Callahan Rd., Reno, Nevada
Coordinates 39°21′39″N119°49′6″W / 39.36083°N 119.81833°W / 39.36083; -119.81833 Coordinates: 39°21′39″N119°49′6″W / 39.36083°N 119.81833°W / 39.36083; -119.81833
Area1.03 acres (0.42 ha)
MPS School Buildings in Nevada MPS
NRHP reference No. 11000255 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 4, 2011

The Galena Creek Schoolhouse in Washoe County, Nevada, in Reno, is a historic schoolhouse that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1]

It is located just south of Galena Creek [2] near Callahan Park. [3]

Nevada's most famous poet of the 1960s and 1970s, Joanne de Longchamps lived in the schoolhouse in 1975 and wrote a book of poetry named "The Schoolhouse Poems". [4] In 1974 Joanne wrote “Three years ago Galen and I acquired (at an auction from the School District ) an acre of land at timberline. It lies under the dominion of Mount Rose and Galena Creek. In one corner of this acre is the schoolhouse – a one room building of hand-cut local stone. To my knowledge, this is the third schoolhouse to stand on or near this site. The first was built when the town of Galena thrived in the 1860s, a timbering town (no longer in existence) that supplied the mines of Virginia City." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places new listings for week of May 13, 2011". National Park Service.
  2. "Galena Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  3. Galena Creek Schoolhouse location on a map, relative to Callahan Park
  4. Joanne de Longchamps (1993). Shaun Timothy Griffin (ed.). Torn by Light: Selected Poems . University of Nevada Press. ISBN   9780874172171 . Retrieved 2014-07-20. galena creek schoolhouse.
  5. Joanne de Longchamps (Report). University of Nevada Reno. Retrieved 2014-07-20.