Old Maizeland School, Buena Park

The Old Maizeland School also called the Rivera School was designated a California Historic Landmark on April 8, 1960. The Old Maizeland School was built in 1868 in what is today Pico Rivera, California by James C. Shugg. James C. Shugg had five children: Alydia Caroline Shugg Gooch, Joannah Shugg Story, Thomas Shugg, Martha Jane Shugg Allison and William E. Shugg. James C. Shugg and his wife, Esther Caroline Graham Shugg, wanted each child to have a good education and built the school on his land. For 27 years it served as the School house in what was called the Rivera District, at 8910 East Shugg Lane, now called Slauson Avenue. The pioneers used the Rivera School District school house to teach their children. In 1896, being too small for teaching now, it was sold, moved to a nearby farm of Ablbert McDonald and use as storage shed. In 1950 the School house was seen as Historical building and move to the Rivera School District Grounds and restored to be a School museum. The museum idea did not work and a year later the school was put up for sale. ()