In 1890, when NCO railroad’s terminus to be known as Amedee, no one knew, that initially it would become boom town. With the influx families, in the spring of 1892, residents of Amedee petitioned the Lassen County Board of Supervisors to establish a school. The Board denied it. Not to be defeated, the residents opened a private school in September with an enrollment of eighteen students. The residents again petitioned the Board to approve a new district. The Board granted it on January 27,1893, and appointed L.W. Brubeck, E.C. Brown and C.D. Hemmenger as trustees.
On April 23, 1893, a $2,500 bond election was held to construct a schoolhouse. (Plans for the structure are unknown but it must have been grandiose for its time—the average school construction bond measure countywide was $500.) The twenty-three qualified voters unanimously favored the measure. The school was never built. A national depression severely affected the local economy. The trustees were unable to sell the bonds and requested the Board of Supervisors to cancel them. When the economy recovered, Amedee’s heyday did not, and the school closed in 1905. However, the story does not end there, and there would be revival and eventually a school house built in Wendel.