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Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds is listed on the Country School Association of America’s National Schoolhouse Registry.
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Teacher Alice Clark, second from the right, with her six students at Criterion School in 1924-25.
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Criterion Schoolhouse near Maupin in Central Oregon before it is relocated to the Oregon State Fairgrounds in 1976.
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The 200-mile journey to a permanent home for Criterion Schoolhouse, which had to be split in half to clear a bridge along the way, ends in Salem. This photographed published in the Statesman Journal.
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For years. retired teachers have been the caretakers of historic Criterion Schoolhouse on the Oregon State Fairgrounds.
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The desks and pot-belled stove are original to Criterion School, which was open in Wasco County from 1912 to 1925.
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Alice Clark Alice was the last teacher at the one-room Criterion Schoolhouse that closed in 1925.
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A display case holds items students would have used when Criterion Schoolhouse was open in Wasco County from 1912 to 1925.
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The roof of the more than 100-year-old Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds being replaced in Salem on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.
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Steven Lewallen, a business manager with L&G Construction, replaces the roof of the more than 100-year-old Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.
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Students from the Historic Preservation and Restoration program at Clatsop Community College work to repair dry rot on the historical Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in Salem, Ore.
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Students from the Historic Preservation and Restoration program at Clatsop Community College work to repair dry rot on the historical Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in Salem, Ore.
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Students from the Historic Preservation and Restoration program at Clatsop Community College work to repair dry rot on the historical Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in Salem, Ore.
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Lu Blanchard, a student from the Historic Preservation and Restoration program at Clatsop Community College, works with others to repair dry rot on the historical Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in Salem, Ore.
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Students from the Historic Preservation and Restoration program at Clatsop Community College work to repair dry rot on the historical Criterion Schoolhouse at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in Salem, Ore.
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