Camp Haswell Built in the 1930’s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) using creek stone and mortar, the cabin has been a recreational spot as well as a Boy Scout cabin for the locals. We are partnering with residents in the Capay Valley to raise funds to replace the roof.
Joann Leach Larkey Historical Writing Project
Funds are available to assist local writers who wish to publish historical works of Yolo County. Apply.
Historical lighting at the Woodland Library - along with the Rose Club and Friends of the Library, we contributed to installing replicas of the light fixtures.
First Friday tours of local businesses in Woodland.
Partnered with Native Sons of the Golden West to establish the Yolo County Fair Museum on the fairgrounds site.
World War I Project and Parade.
Saved the WPA building in Davis' Central Park.
Schoolhouse porch restoration.
Spring Lake School on the Yolo County Fairgrounds (looked after by the YCHS) is available for visits from school groups (free of charge). Our wonderful and dependable schoolmarms and school masters welcome these class groups and introduce them to life as it was lived in the many one-room schoolhouses that dotted this county in 1890.
Read more about the schoolhouse.
History of Spring Lake School House*
Spring Lake Schoolhouse is a real one room country schoolhouse that was built in 1869, a mile east of the Yolo County Fairgrounds. The parents who farmed near Gibson Road and Country Road 101 wanted their children to learn to read and write, so they worked together to build this school themselves with donated lumber and materials. The Schoolhouse has been moved two times when it finally landed in 1889 at present day 1585 East Gibson Road, the location of Willow Spring School (abandoned now).
In 1950 the Yolo County Historical Society campaigned to raise $350 to buy the building and move it to the Yolo County Fairgrounds, where you see it today.
In the first seventeen years of the school history, there were fifteen different teachers, four of them men. The teacher often lived with a student’s family, sometimes moving from one family to another during the year.
The Spring Lake Schoolhouse Museum is a Yolo County historical resource owned and operated by the Yolo County Historical Society. It is open during the Yolo County Fair.
*Information taken from YCHS brochure “Spring Lake School Historic One Room Country Schoolhouse”
County Courthouse We would like very much for one of the courtrooms in the old building to become a living history setting for 8th, 10th and 12th grade history classes and English classes (imagine seeing the courtroom scene from To Kill a Mockingbird).
Acknowledgement of Historic Chinatown in Woodland along China Alley.