Holtville High School will celebrate 100 years of graduates this year. Its familiar Spanish revival building is not quite as old as the first one. But its roots as a school run a century older and include more western Elmore County communities than Holtville.
Cains Chapel, Lightwood, Pine Flat, Deatsville, Cold Springs, Robinson Springs and Riverside were all churches or one- and two-room schools.
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