Fresno elementary school celebrating 150th anniversary

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Filled with a people photo, their unofficial schoolhouse mascot and immoderate of the the students favourite things, a clip capsule represents the people of 2025 astatine Fort Washington Elementary.

It's a tribute to the past & a motion to the future.

Current students and alumni came unneurotic to observe the school's 150th anniversary.

"Our schoolhouse statesman with a simple, yet almighty intent to supply a spot wherever children could learn, imagination and physique a agleam future," says main Melanie Hashimoto.

Founded successful 1875, Fort Washington Elementary Union School District created a legacy.

When the schoolhouse archetypal opened, astir 2 twelve students walked oregon rode their equine to the one-room schoolhouse.

"One of the things that we did that was truly unsocial astatine Fort Washington implicit 50 years agone was we would march to class," says Dan Cobb.

A period and a fractional later, the schoolhouse relocated doubly and is present connected Millbrook and Teague Avenues, serving adjacent to 600 students.

"For me, Fort Washington is peculiar due to the fact that I get to larn each azygous time due to the fact that that's a precise bully experience," says pupil president Kensington Vang.

Buried successful the bosom of campus, the clip capsule volition beryllium a find for students successful 25 years.

The adjacent procreation volition larn astir those that came earlier them and proceed their Patriot traditions.

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