The Fruita Schoolhouse, just one mile east of the Visitor Center, was built in 1896 after land was donated for it by Elijah Cutler Behunin. Behunin’s daughter, Nettie, was Fruita’s first school teacher at the age of 12 in 1890. She would go on to teach for at least a decade before eventually becoming the postmistress of Torrey. The earliest desks in the school were handmade of pine and fit 2 children. Teachers would sometimes sit a trouble-making boy next to a girl in order to shame him into being quiet. This building stayed in use until 1941.
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