Smith Hollow Country Schoolhouse
& Quarantine Log Cabin

Address: 113 N. Front St.  Dayton, WA  99328

Built in 1900, this country schoolhouse was originally located eight miles north of Dayton. It served grades 1–8 in the Smith Hollow School District until 1933, when that district consolidated with Dayton. The building, however, continued to be used as an area meeting place and community center into the 1980s.

In 2010, the building was moved to Dayton, where it underwent a three-year restoration. Looking again as it did in its heyday, the Smith Hollow Country Schoolhouse now showcases the history of education—as well as rural community centers—in Columbia County.

Visitors may experience sitting at the wooden desks, writing with chalk on slates and chalkboards, using vintage typewriters, pumping the player piano, playing 78 records on a Victrola and building with a set of Lincoln Logs.

Additional exhibits rotate in and out of the back room of the schoolhouse.

New to the site is a cabin built in 1898 for a soldier returning from the Spanish American War. It was moved in 2017 from the backyard of a Richmond Street home and reassembled on the schoolhouse site.

OPEN (April–November) Fridays and Saturdays from 1–4 p.m.

Other times are by appointment. Call (509) 540-9560 or email bluemountainheritage@gmail.com. 

Currently open by appointment only.