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In 1877, when Conejo School was built, it was for all the children in
the valley. Ten years later it was determined that there was a need for
another school in the western end of the valley as more children had
moved into the area.
Interested citizens who spearheaded the plan to form a new school district
included Cecil Haigh, Mr. and Mrs. Wadleigh, Richard Hunt and Caspar
Borchard. On January 5, 1888, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors
voted to establish the second school district, the Timber School District.
It was called Timber District because of the tiny community of Timberville,
that surrounded the Conejo Hotel known later as the Stagecoach Inn.
Since, there was no school building, the children attended classes in
the hotel. In December 1888, Cecil Haigh sold two acres of his land for
a school site for $50.00. The building was completed in 1889. It was
a one-room schoolhouse with two tiny anterooms which were used as cloakrooms.
It had blackboards, desks, an organ, a mirror, a broom and dustpan, a
shovel, and a coal oil lamp. Each child provided his own slate. The building
was heated by a wood stove.
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