DUCOR TELEPHONE COMPANY
Ducor, California
In 1983 Vern was working here to create Continuing Property Records
The Company has THREE Exchanges but I only worked here in Ducor.
This site is made possible
by persons who play
"We worked for"
Ducor Union Elementary School District services the students in Ducor, CA.
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Before working
here in Ducor,
I worked with
Scott Sandifer
at Tonopah,
 Nevada.
Here he is with
his pickup at
the "OLD TOWN"
near where that
Welcome sign
was in the past.
On a third visit to Ducor, My wife Letha
posed like she was picking an Orange.
Please view my Death Valley encounters
 while driving here, twice!
We were heading home after meeting
Roy Rogers in Victorville, CA
The dream of a grammar school in Ducor, CA was realized on January 6, 1909, when the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, upon the request of the citizens of Ducor, voted to locate a school district in the area. Previous to this decision, students in the area had to attend schools in the outlying areas. There were no school buses. Students commuted to school by horseback. Land was donated by the Braly brothers for a school site, east of town, and a $5,000 bond issue was voted upon to build one school. The campus was not completed in time for the beginning of the school year on September 13, 1909. The classes were held at the Baptist Church in Ducor. Miss Martha Fricklin, the first teacher for Ducor School, was also the District's first principal. She taught 26 students in a one room schoolhouse in grades 1st-8th and was paid $275. The current site was completed and ready for students by January 1910. The School's first floor was used as a classroom and the second floor was for community activities including lodge meetings, dances, sewing bees, and bazaars. The original boards members were William H. Braly, J.B. Dennis, and Fred M. Carlisle. The original schoolhouse was used until 1940. As the school continued to grow, the idea to annex the schools at Wheatland, Fountain Springs, Quincy, Thermal, and White River led to the creation of the Ducor Union Elementary School District. Ducor is the last of these country schools still in operation, and continues today to echo the original Ducor School motto of the founding pioneer.
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