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The recent school house in Goodyears Bar was built in 1862. It is not in the list of the buildings that burned in 1864. This fire stated in P. Cody's Saloon and burned all of the main section of town. Therefore it seems reliable that the present school house in Goodyears is still the original struture.

For the first few years from 1849, until the late 1850's there were only a few children in Goodyears Bar. In 1854 there were only 13 children between five and eighteen in this school district.
Mrs. Massey was the first teacher in Goodyears to teach in a private school located somewhere close to the present school building. Her husband is also listed in the 1854 census of Sierra County as a miner from France and aged 37 years. Then in 1862, the first public school teacher in the new school house had 52 children and was taught by Mrs. Delaney who's
husband was a miner from Ireland. See the table below for a list of teachers who taught school at the Goodyears Bar School house. This school house still stands today.
| Teachers who taught in Goodyears Bar Schoolhouse |
| Mrs. Delaney | 1863 |
| Miss Marian Hatch | 1866 |
| Miss Harriet Hatch | 1867 |
| Miss Saria Jackson | 1869 |
| John McMillian | 1870 |
| Dr. Bardock | 1871 |
| Annie D. Gregory | 1872 |
| Annie Wilderson | 1872-1879 |
| Miss Lulu B. Davis | 1876-1898 |
| Miss Eva Fanane | 1878-1900 |
| Mrs. M.L. Parker | 1880 |
| Maggie Williams | 1881 |
| Albion S. Mileg | 1882 |
| Mrs. L. Sobranes | 1882 |
| Thomas McGrath | 1889 |
| A.B.Thompson | 1890 |
| Celinda Casserly | 1891 |
| H.M. Kennedy | 1891-1893 |
| Miss Helen Wright | 1894 |
Miss Blanch A. Parker Somerville  | 1894 |
| Miss Ella Kane | 1895 |
| W.A. Spencer | 1896 |
| Miss Maggie O'Connell | 1900-1902 |
| Miss Ella Blackmore | 1903 |
| Miss Elizabeth Ogier | 1903 |
| Miss Belle Alexander | 1903-1905 |
| Miss McMahon | 1906 |
| Miss Jessie Simmons | 1907 |
| Miss Belle Alexander | 1907-1916 |
| Miss Ruth Turner | 1921 |
| Miss Maude Pencovic | 1922 |
| Miss Lian Vogue | 1922-1929 |
| Mrs Sidney Stran | 1929-1934 |
| Mrs Annas Forbers | 1934-1938 |
| Mrs M Johnson | 1939 |
| Mrs Evelyn Smith | 1940 |
| Mrs N C Clark | 1946 |
| Mrs Jewl Williams | 1947 |
| Mrs Sidney Stran | 1946-1953 |
| Closure of school in 1953 |
The year, 1920 was not a good year for the Goodyears School. The school changed schoolmistresses three times.
First, Mary Stenberg, then came Nellie Miller, and followed by
Agnes Dow. Seems to me that maybe rowdy children caused the first couple of teachers to quit!
Frank Somerville of Janesville, California came to Goodyears Bar on July 3, 2004 to find the gravesite of his Great-grandparents, Hazard and Mina Parker.
It turns out that Frank has a book written by his grandmother Blanche Parker Somerville which she wrote about her childhood in the Goodyear's Bar and Downieville areas. Blanche was a school teacher
in Goodyears Bar in 1894. Frank has been working on the family history and has accumulated information which will be updated on this website. The Parkers and Somervilles are part of the
history of Sierra County and of the Great Gold Rush which took place here in the Goodyears Bar area. Good to see you, Frank.
www.GoodyearsBar.com is where the North Yuba flows. We love the history and the life in Sierra County, California
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