Story and photo by www.PhotoByVivian.com

If you are in the mood for a bike ride or a Sunday drive in search of wildflowers, head back to the Huasna Townsite, where not only will you see beautiful fields, oak trees, pastures, farms, deer and yes, wildflowers, but you will also find one of the few remaining one room schoolhouses in the state.
Step back in time, to 1843 when Isaac Sparks received a Mexican land grant that became the Huasna Rancho and Porter Ranch among others. The families that worked the land in and around the Townsite, the Harloes, Porters, Parks, and Ruedis and others who came in the early 1900s and began cattle farms, dairies and ranches, had children who needed to go to school. In 1907 the Huansa one-room schoolhouse was built. Those children, many of who still live in our area today, had to walk several miles to school. A one-room schoolhouse typically taught both boys and girls academic basics to the high school grade levels. The Huasna School taught up to the 8th grade.
Visible from the road, the Huasna Schoolhouse sits on private property and although it has been closed for many years it is cared for and still remains in tact.
Any residents who went to Huasna School, contact Vivian Krug Cotton at www.PhotoByVivian.com.