Harmony School opened on August 5, 1871, among the first schools serving pioneer families who settled west along the Tule River. Its first building was a one-room, one-sided wooden structure located about 100 feet south of this corner near two oak trees. In 1918, a new two-room structure was built, of which the remaining arch was a part. The families it served included that of Julius Orton, a Forty-Niner and veteran of the Mexican War, who homesteaded 160 acres east of here in 1857 and brought his family and small herd of cattle 230 miles cross-country from Soquel. Among the earliest landowners in the area were the David McGees, along with the Hunsakers, Callisons, Kirbys, Yavers, Roths, Lewises, Monroe, Spuhlers, Vosslers, and Stones. Cattle ranching was the main occupation in the lush prairie between Four Creeks and White River, where filagree grew as high as saddle stirrups. Floods, drought, and disease threatened the settlers, and in the 1877 diphtheria epidemic two children in the Blair family died within an hour of each other. The No Fence Law of 1877 curtailed use of the open range, and settlers turned to other forms of farming. Harmon became part of the Sunnyside District in 1945. The 1918 building later served as a community center until it burned on July 27, 1983, leaving only the arch.