Mesa School, Town of Mesa, Mesa County, Colorado Mesa Mesa Colorado 81643 USA A school in the town of Mesa on the Grand Mesa in the early Twentieth century. It may have been in operation as early as the formation of its governing school district, Mesa School District 9, in 1885. Oral history interviewee Anna Clark recalls it being a one-room school house in the 1890's, when she attended. It lacked a bell, but the Ladies Aid fundraised and purchased one for the school. According to Anna (Barker) Foster, the first school house was a log school house where the Mesa cemetery is now located. It hosted a Sunday school run by a Mrs. Laswell. One of the first teachers at the school was Elnora Bertholf, an early settler. According to Foster, who taught there, the later school was located approximately one mile south of town. When she began teaching in 1908, the school had three teachers: Minnie Walker, who taught 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades, Miss Lowe, who taught 4th, 5th and 6th grades, and Anna Foster, who taught 7th, 8th and 9th grades. The school had thirty to thirty-five pupils. One of the boys who attended the school arrived early to start a fire and clean the rooms. Children from all around the area attended the school, with some traveling along Mesa Creek by cart to arrive, and living as far away as five miles. yes yes