This building was erected in early 1862 as a church and public meeting place, built from flume lumber floated down the river from Snake Bar. In the latter half of 1862 it became a school, with Mrs. Delany as the first teacher on record. It may have escaped the fire of 1864, and by 1882 the school had 31 students enrolled. In 1953, when teacher Mrs. Sydney Strand ended the era of teaching all eight primary grades in a one room schoolhouse, the governing school board discontinued its use and bused local students to Downieville. The board then gave the building to the community of Goodyears Bar, where for the last 50 years it has served as a social hall, voting place, pre-school, and museum connected to the mining history that gave the town its beginning.