4/5/2024 - Valentine (Route 66)

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 Along route 66 you can see this building. This was the Truxton Canyon Training School.  It was created by President McKinley in 1898.  The school opened in 1901, and the schoolhouse was built in 1903.  It was a boarding house for boys and girls who lived there from September to May.  It was expanded in 1924 and again in 1927 and 1929.  Its bricks were manufactured on site by the Hualapai students.

After closing in 1937, two of the three main buildings were demolished.  The fields cultivated by students went fallow and settlement withered.  It is now owned by the Hualapai Indian Nation.

Over the 36 years of its existence, it educated around 750 students.  Non-Indian children used another building, the Red Schoolhouse from 1924 to 1969.

It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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