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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/ushering_history_into_the_digital_age/16597/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: They say a school is the heartbeat of a community and if we are to adhere to that sensible wisdom, then Kalispell’s heartbeat found its rhythm in the fall of 1894. It was then, five years after Montana became the nation’s 41st state, that Central School was built for $20,000, becoming Kalispell’s first “stone-and-brick” school, according to the Northwest Montana Historical Society’s Executive Director Gil Jordan. Before that, wood-frame structures lined the town’s few streets, and kids lacked a centralized school.