As you step through the doors of Oak Glen's greatest historical treasure, the old, stone Oak Glen Schoolhouse, you step back into the past. - - 1927 to be exact - - when Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States and that legendary American, Henry Ford, had just built his first Model A automobile. It was also during this time that the apple growers of this community decided their children needed a permanent school to attend close to home. Prior to 1927, a small wooden, traveling school built in 1888, was used by moving it from one side of the Glen to the other, depending on where most of the students seeking educations lived during a particular year. The wooden school house was part of the Yucaipa School District, formed in 1879. The community of Oak Glen started its own school district in 1911, separating from Yucaipa's Pass School which was begun in 1896. By 1927, however, Oak Glen's school board members Ted Silverwood, C. J. "Blackie" Wilshire and Samuel Baumann decided the time had come to build this structure. Blackie's father, ranch owner Joe Wilshire, donated 1.2 acres of land for the school's location, which was adjacent to Wilshire Ranch. Thus, on May 13, 1927, the board called for a school bond election, set for June 4th of that year. The Redlands Daily Facts, on May 13, 1927, reported, "It is expected that the bonds will carry without opposition, for the people of the district are very much in favor of it" And, indeed they were. Residents in the Oak Glen School District voted 12 - 0 for a $7,500 bond to build the new school This may seem like a small amount of money today, but costs were less expensive in 1927. As a comparison, those modern wonders of the day, Model A Fords, were selling for only $471.31.