Market Street Primary School- Historical Sketch- 1879-80, from the SF Muni Report This school now occupies two eight-class wooden buildings in the rear of the Lincoln Grammar School building on Fifth street, near Market street. At present there are nine hundred and twenty-one boys and girls in attendance. The school was instituted March 4, 1860, in one ot he present buildings on Fifth street. It has since been removed to the rear portion of the lot to make room for the Grammar building. In 1865 it was organized as a "training School for the instruction of the pupils of the State Normal School in the art of teaching. The upper portion of this building ws occupied by the State Normal School from 1865 until it was removed to San Jose in June 1872. After the removal of the Normal School the Primary School in the Presbyterian Church on Mission street, near Sixth street, under the charge of Miss Agnes MANNING, was transferred to this school. The school ws originally called the Fifth Street Primary, then the Market Street Primary, then, on September 24, 1875, it was changed to Lincoln Primary, and shortly afterwards it ws again changed to the Market Street Primary. The following teachers have been Principals of this school; Miss M. D. LYNDE, elected March 4, 1860 Fred ELLIOT, elected January 1862 Bernahrd MARKS, elected September, 1862 Mrs. C. H. STOUT, elected January, 1864 Miss Agnes M. MANNING, elected July, 1872 ----------------- Carolyn