The Old Davie School was the first permanent school in the Everglades and is now Broward County’s oldest existing school building. Designed in 1917 by August Geiger, who was born in 1888 and came to Miami in 1905 from New Haven, Connecticut, it opened in 1918 to 90 students and remained in continuous use as a school until 1980. The masonry vernacular concrete structure is topped by a shallow hip roof behind a parapet. From the day it opened, it served as the area’s source of education as well as a center for community gatherings. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the Old Davie School Historical Museum is a historic, cultural, social and artistic resource dedicated to providing information and learning opportunities for students and the community at large, and the building remains an irreplaceable link to the history of early 20th century pioneering, settlement and education in Western Broward County.