Former school now Deschutes Historical Center
Reid School was named after early teacher and the principal Ruth Reid Overturf
This former school is located between Bond Street and Wall Street in south Bend and just one block southeast of the Deschutes County Library. Reid school was built in 1914 and was named for Ruth Reid, an early Bend teacher.
Reid was a native of New Brunswick, Canada. She was born on Jan. 31, 1881. She came to Bend to teach school in 1904 when she was 24 years old. She began teaching in Bend in a one-room school above a feed store. She was paid $60 per month.
Central Oregon used to be home to several ski areas now considered ‘lost’ By Brian Rathbone, The Bulletin
Published: December 25, 2020, 5:36pm
Share: Steve Stenkamp, a local historian of lost ski areas in Oregon, talks about the former ski jump while walking through the Skyliner Sno-park. (Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin/TNS)
BEND, Ore. Decades ago, there were multiple community-run ski areas in Central Oregon. After Mount Bachelor opened in 1958, those spots were slowly shuttered and began to fade away.
Steve Stenkamp, a retired Bend firefighter and avid skier of more than 50 years turned skiing historian, has been on the hunt to find Oregon’s abandoned slopes.