Living New Deal: Gorman Elementary School

Gorman is for most people, merely another rest stop along Interstate 5 for gas, a burger, and a bathroom break. There is something else there too. A small school was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1939. It is still in use and still has just two classrooms.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Gorman
• California
• elementary
• school
• Works
• Progress
• Administration
• President
• Franklin
• Roosevelt
• Great
• Depression

[Amiduffer]

@192sk8tergirl Thank you for watching young lady. Attendance numbers tend to fluctuate in smaller communities unless you're in an area that is dying out and loosing population. Have you personally seen this ghost or just heard stories? Any times in particular when it appears?

[192sk8tergirl]

im a student at this school 7th grad if you didnt know this the school of gorman is huanted there is a gost of a littel girl named hairriet she died when her father ran her over with his tractor but by the time he had noticed it was to late he bairred her where she laied that resting spot in under the auditorium stag her gost romes the school and as of the beginning of this year there are 100 students when i started going there in the 5th grad there were only 65 student

[Amiduffer]

@pestr999 That's all. Its typical of the many thousands of public projects that saved people's lives during the depression and created something of lasting importance.

[pestr999]

So other then it was built during that administration, is there any other significance to it?

[Amiduffer]

@oopspaw Hard to say Katie. There's no documentation as to the reason.

[oopspaw]

i have heard of one room school houses but never a two room school house in which the two rooms are detached from each other! how odd! i wonder why it was built that way? hmm .. =/