Site of the First Public School in Castro Valley
This site was part of the original Don Castro Land Grant. In 1866 pioneer settler Josiah Grover Brickell made a land grant of this site for “educational purposes only” and paid the teacher’s salary, who taught children by day, in a one room school house, and farm hands at night by candlelight.
Marker is on Redwood Road near James Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
