The San Timoteo Schoolhouse is one of the District’s three nationally registered historic sites. Situated in picturesque San Timoteo Canyon, between Redlands and Beaumont, the schoolhouse has witnessed much in its 125+ year history, and now sits ready to welcome a new generation of visitors.

San Timoteo Canyon has been a route of travel for thousands of years. Local Indians used the canyon to travel between the San Bernardino Valley and the desert regions to the east for trade. This pattern continued with the influx of Europeans and Americans in the 1800s. Just after San Bernardino was founded by the Mormons in 1851, non-Mormons began to settle in San Timoteo Canyon by setting up ranches. Over the next 50 years, several different families took up residence in the canyon, and a series of homesteads and ranches could be seen throughout the area.