- City:
- Yosemite National Park, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conservation and Public Lands, Work Relief Programs, National Park Service (NPS)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built a school house at Wawona in 1937. The enrollee work teams came from the nearby Wawona CCC Camp YNP #7.
The building is a shingled, rustic wood structure set on a stone foundation, with large windows for good interior lighting. Its appearance is unchanged over the years.
A new, large school has replaced the New Deal building sometime around 1970, built in a modern style at odds with the old idea of park rusticity. The old CCC school was used for many years as a community center, until that, too, was replaced by a new, larger, boxy building.
As of 2022, the old CCC school is not being used. It lies just to the west and behind the new school.
Source notes
Site originally submitted by John Broesamle on April 8, 2022.
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- General Improvements - Yosemite National Park CA
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- Trail Improvement and Restoration - Yosemite National Park CA
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- Yosemite Valley (Pines) Campgrounds Reconstruction - Yosemite National Park CA
- Fern Spring - Yosemite National Park CA
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Rosemary MacCallum
Andrew laverdiere
Does fern spring run above ground anywhere?
Where is the source of fern spring?
Hi Rosemary, the source of the spring is right there at the pool.