Dixie Schoolhouse, Historical schoolhouse museum in San Rafael, Marin County, United States.
The Dixie Schoolhouse is a one-room schoolhouse from 1864 with Victorian Italianate style and symmetrical windows. The small building was designed as a learning space for local children and preserves its original furnishings.
An Irish immigrant named James Miller built the schoolhouse in 1864 and it served as a learning place for more than 90 years. After closing in 1958, it was converted into a museum to preserve the heritage of that era.
The building shows how rural education worked when students of different ages shared a single classroom. Visitors can still picture how teachers and pupils used this small space every day.
The schoolhouse stands near Miller Creek Middle School in San Rafael, at the end of a short drive from the city. Visits are possible on the first Sunday of each month from 2 to 4 P.M., when the Old Dixie School Foundation opens the building to the public.
The name "Dixie" has no settled origin: traditions credit Southern carpenters, a local Native woman named Mary Dixie, or the French word for ten. The school district it gave its name to was renamed in 2020 over the Confederate association.
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