St. Nicholas Chapel
In Sand Point, Sand Point, AKThe Eagar Elementary School served the Arizona community of Eagar and its agricultural hinterland for fifty-three years by providing a substantial forum for the elementary education of its children. From the destruction of the original, frame schoolhouse by fire in 1930 to the decommissioning of this red-brick replacement in 1984 when it became the town hall, the Eagar Elementary School has stood as the physical manifestation of the importance of education to the community and as an example of the Mormon educational paradigm in Arizona. The period of significance relates to the time between the school's initial construction and the arbitrary 50-year cut-off for National Register Eligibility. This schoolhouse, therefore, is significant under Criterion A in the area of Education, because it provides a physical symbol of the relationship between Mormon communities in Arizona and the process of education in the twentieth-century American West. In addition, its history also provides an instructive example for the development of the historic context of Mormon colonization in Arizona.
Local significance of the building:
Exploration/settlement; Architecture; Social History
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
About National Register Listings
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.
In the late 1800s, there was a gold rush in Alaska that drew thousands of prospectors to the region. The Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-1899 brought tens of thousands of people to Alaska and the Yukon, and was one of the largest gold rushes in history.