Fruita School
by Cindy Murphy - NightVisions
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Fruita School
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Cindy Murphy - NightVisions
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Driving through Capital Reef National Park, this small schools remembers before it was a National park. Classes had been conducted for two years before the Fruita Schoolhouse was built, when Elijah Cutler Behunin donated land for a school building in 1896. He and other early Junction settlers constructed the building. Even though only eight families lived in Junction, these farmers had large families. The Behunins raised thirteen children themselves, one of which, Nettie, became the first schoolteacher at age twelve. She taught children in the Behunin home before the schoolhouse was built. Nettie's first class had 22 students, three of whom were her siblings.img163-3 1216
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November 6th, 2016
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