School Days of Early San Diego
Fall is in the air and that traditionally means that many students and teachers have already begun a new and fruitful academic year. Over 150 years ago the students of San Diego were doing the very same thing when San Diego’s first schoolhouse opened in 1865. Join us on for a lesson on “School days of Early San Diego.” These days were not without controversy of course! Learn about the “Walker Incident” which pitted San Diego’s first schoolteacher against the school board, or the different varieties of schools which eventually cropped up such as “Madam Katherine Tingley’s School of Antiquity” for the more esoterically minded student. Were the early days of school in San Diego much different from now? Find out at our lecture hosted by our Historian Sandee Wilhoit and Visitor Services Coordinator Jamie Laird.