Leona Valley in Los Angeles County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
Leona Valley School House
Photographed by Craig Baker, May 31, 2024
1. Leona Valley School House Marker
Old Leona School, 1915-1939. Future museum of Leona Valley and the West A.V. Historical Society.
Leona Valley Schoolhouse - California Point of Historical Interest - 2013.
Erected by West Antelope Valley Historical Society.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Education. A significant historical year for this entry is 1915.
Location. 34° 36.998′ N, 118° 16.785′ W. Marker is in Leona Valley, California, in Los Angeles County. It can be reached from Elizabeth Lake Road half a mile west of Bouquet Canyon Road, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 8367 Elizabeth Lake Rd, Palmdale CA 93551, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Greater Los Angeles, in the High Desert, and in the Transverse Ranges. It is also on the American Pacific Coast. Globally, it is in North America, on the Ring of Fire, in the Pacific Rim, in the Western Hemisphere, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain and also Mexicos
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Lazy T (approx. 4.6 miles away); Creosote (approx. 6.2 miles away); Butterfield Overland Mail (approx. 6.7 miles away); D-558 Skyrocket (approx. 6.8 miles away); Elizabeth Lake (approx. 8.2 miles away); F/A-18 Hornet (approx. 8½ miles away); Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union School (approx. 9 miles away); Land and Industry (approx. 9.1 miles away).
Regarding Leona Valley School House. Hand-built by local volunteers around 1915 for $1,500, the one-story structure had a redwood frame, clapboard siding and an asphalt shingle gable roof. An open cupola served as a bell tower. Students in the first through eighth grades studied side by side. It is one of the only schools in Southern California still standing from the homesteading boom when pioneers settled northern L.A. County.
The schoolhouse survived being moved twice, in 1939 and 1989.
Members of the pioneer Ritter family, who owned more than 15,000 acres of ranch and farmland, used it as a gun club and hosted Hollywood stars there who visited to fish and
Photographed by Craig Baker, May 31, 2024
2. Sign at Highway
1915 Leona Valley School House - Point of Historical Interest
The schoolhouses second move came after it was threatened with demolition by developers.
Also see . . . West Antelope Valley Historical Society. (Submitted on June 8, 2024.)
Photographed by Craig Baker, May 31, 2024
3. School House and Marker
Photographed by Craig Baker, May 31, 2024
4. Leona Valley School House
Photographed by Craig Baker, May 31, 2024
5. Leona Heritage Park
Photographed by Craig Baker, May 31, 2024
6. Historical Displays
7. Leona Valley School House
Credits. This page was last revised on December 10, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 4, 2024, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California. This page has been viewed 1,134 times since then and 99 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on June 4, 2024, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California.
