More Abandoned Idaho.

Sitting on the Camas Prairie all by itself, 2 miles south and 4 miles east of Fairfield, in the middle of a farmer's field, is the original Camas County School Building. It is very interesting as it is made of hand-cast, hand laid-up adobe. To be honest with you - it is a scarey place to stand in and around as it moves, creeks, and groans loudly with the wind. It appears that there are very minimal foundations, which long ago began to crack and break, as evidenced by the voids and cracks criss-crossing the block wall. What is amazing, is that most of the the adobe is in great shape; like they could be re-used today.

You can see the big North wall boarded up now. It is a huge glass wall made of possibly 100 or more 2' x 2' panes. There are only two or three missing now. It was a single room school with a captains-ladder in the middle leading up into the bellfry above. The old original ladder is in bits and peices with only the sides still whole and semi-usable. I'm not sure when this buidling stopped being used. The old unused school building here in town has a date on the front of 1897, so use of this one would have been discontinued about that time, I would imagine. On a warmer day, I will spend more time here and get better pictures of the adobe to share with you.