In the early 1880's, a one-room school was built on this site, a triangle of land between Onion Street and Highway 91. Constructed of lime-cement and rock, it measured 16 feet by 25 feet, with six windows, three on the north side and three on the south side, and a west-facing entrance. A coal house was attached to the building, and a potbellied stove stood in the center of the room with a long stovepipe reaching to the chimney on the east. There were three rows of desks on each side of the stove. Students furnished their own books and slates, and children who could not attend regularly because of farm work had to bring their own desks. Each night, a bucket of fresh water was carried from the Burtenshaw Well across the road for the children to drink the next day, and a bucket with a clean dipper was placed on a table for their use. The school remained in use until 1898, when it was torn down and a red brick, two-room school was built on the property. About 1920, the location was renamed Cleverly Crossing by the Bamberger Railway Company and became a designated stop, where a shelter was built for waiting passengers. In 1935, Onion Street, named for the onion trucks that came from the farms to the crossing every Friday, was redirected so that it crossed the old school grounds to enter Highway 91 in North Salt Lake.