WELCOME. The Douglas Flat Community Center (AKA the Schoolhouse) has been continuously welcoming generations since the Gold Rush. It is community owned and listed on the National Registry of Historic places.
The building and grounds have been in constant use since 1854. Located in heart of the mother lode Douglas Flat California is just two minutes from downtown historic Murphys a popular spot for with tourists and wine tasters.
The building was in continuous use as a schoolhouse for over a century. Like similar pioneer-era buildings it was used as a school during weekdays and a community meeting place during the evenings. On weekend nights there were pot luck parties and dances. Sunday mornings was church. Weekend afternoons were picnics and weddings.
170 years later the schoolhouse is undergoing expensive major repair work which includes lifting the building up, putting it on blocks while the foundation is repaired to the tune of 70 grand. (See photos.) To donate click on the "Fundraising-Donate" button above.
OUR MISSION is to keep the 17 decade old building's doors open well into the future. It is the oldest school house in Calaveras County and continues to serve as a meeting place hosting events from church services, weddings, art classes, plays, cub scouts and square dances.
Other renovations are undergoing to restore the building to its original appearance. (See link to shutter replacement project and the mystery behind the missing shutters above.)
Also more landscaping improvements would make the building more desirable for rentals, such as weddings, art classes and wine tasting events. Did we mention the place is ideal for weddings? Who want to book an event in period costumes?
The building is the ideal backdrop for photos! Historical Reeinactors welcome!
Purposes of the DFCC Corporation, from Articles of Incorporation dated June 13, 1945
1. To sponsor, stimulate, and encourage meetings and assemblages of children and persons for religious, charitable, social, educational, and recreational purposes.
2. To sponsor, stimulate, encourage, conduct, and maintain entertainments, plays, and social gatherings for the benefit, amusement, recreation, pleasure, and inspiration of its members and the people of the community of Douglas Flat in general.
3. To stimulate, encourage and inculcate the principals of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity among its members and the people of the community of Douglas Flat at large.
4. To improve preserve and beautify the local school grounds, parks and places of historical interest in and about the community of Douglas Flat, in Calaveras County, California.
5. To promote the general welfare and encourage the happiness of its members and the people of the community of Douglas Flat in general.
6. To lease, purchase, hold, have, use, and take possession of and enjoy in fee simple or otherwise any personal or real property necessary to the uses and purposes of the corporation and to sell, lease, mortgage, deed in trust, alien (sic) (align?) or dispose of the same at the pleasure of the corporation and for the purposes and uses for which said corporation is formed and to buy and sell real and personal property and to apply the proceeds of sale including any and all income to the uses and purposes of the corporation.
Douglas Flat Community Center
P.O. BOX 73
Douglas Flat, CA 95229
For rental information and general questions. DFCC1854@gmail.com
Webmaster is Paul. Paul@paulsrobots.com
This homepage was made possible by the generous support of the Bea Pettrocchi LRY Trust.
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