Hart-Ransom Union School District was, in the 60s and 70s, a K-8 school district in Stanislaus County, California

Stanislaus County, California

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, historically known as Ransom School. The Modesto Bee

Modesto Bee

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occasionally reprints a news item from 1901 reporting that a criminal was gunned down by a sheriff

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on Ransom School's doorstep. Hart School was formerly located on Hart Road. Members of the Hart family still attended the school at least as recently as the mid-70s.