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THE
TEXAS SCHOOLHOUSE (Prior to 1950)
In this series
we showcase some of the most modest of Texas buildings. Schools had
one purpose and one purpose only. They didn't enjoy the amenities
or details of hotels, public buildings, depots or courthouses. In
some cases during the winters of the 1930s - each child came to school
with a piece of firewood for the stove.
Many schools were dismantled and recycled into barns and outbuildings
after the school consolidations of the late 40s and early 50s. Only
a fraction are still standing today. Some today serve as community
buildings or even residences. Others are simply collapsing under their
own weight or being swallowed by vegetation. |
TEXAS SCHOOLHOUSES
& ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES
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FEATURE
ARTICLES
Restoring
Trinity's Old Red - The red-brickTrinity schoolhouse, built
in 1911-13
TEXAS
SCHOOLHOUSES
Albert
- Williams Creek School
11-15-07
Aleman,
former school
Allamoore
School
Alligator
School House, Texas
Alpine
High School
Ambrose
Old Schoolhouse
Alvord
Public School
Andrews
Aransas
Pass old school building
Bangs
High School
Barstow
High stadium scoreboard
Barstow
School
Bartlett
School Feature
Baylor
University, Independence
Bayside
School
Beaukiss
School Feature
Ben
Ficklin School, former Tom Green County Courthouse
Bend
School (no photos)
Benoit
old schoolhouse
Berclair
School
Big
Spring Public School
Bluffton
Schoolhouse
Bluntzer
School
Bonnie
Parker's Alma Mater 4-12-07
Borger
High School, circa 1930s
Bremond
School
Brenham
High School
Briggs
School
Bronco
Highway School
8-19-07 (no photo)
Brookesmith
School old and new gym
Brownwood
- Rufus F. Hardin School Feature
Bula
Schoolhouse Ruins
Bulah
Bulcher,
former Center High School #64
Bunker
Hill School
Calf
Creek School Feature
Carbon
Old Schoolhouse & former high school 12-13-07
Carlton
school
Cartwright
8-27-07
Castell
old schoolhouse
Center
High School - School Days Feature
A Ghost Story by James L. Choron
Chapman
Ranch
Chappell
Hill former school, now a museum
Charlie
4-5-07
Cheapside
Cherry
Spring - Old Cherry Spring School
Chico
former schoolhouse - Siddon-Barnes Log Cabin 1870s
Cistern
School c. 1920
Clarendon
High School 1927 - Athletes and Pep Squad
Clairette
Schoolhouse
2-10-08
Clarkson
old schoolhouse
Coldwater
Schoolhouse
Collinsville
School
Commerce
High School - Class of 1927
Cookville
Public School, early 1900s
Cottonwood
old schoolhouse
Cotulla
High School c. 1928
Crabapple
School c. 1878
Crane
High School
Cranfills
Gap c. 1939
Crawford
Middle School
Crews
Schoolhouse & Gym
Crockett
- Mary Allen College
Dale
6-30-07
Dayton
Old Schoolhouse
Del
Rio High School
Denison
High School Feature
10-12-07
Desdemona
School
Dexter
- Auditorium interior 2-21-08
D'Hanis
- St. Anthony's School
12-14-07
Donna
School
Doole
Elementary School 5th and 6th grade class 1946 - 1947
9-5-07
Dozier
Draw
School House Feature
(no photo)
Dripping
Springs Academy
Dryden
Dulin
6-4-07
Dundee
School
Duffau
School
Eagle
Lake High School Band
Eagle
Pass
Edinburg High School
Elgin
Public School, early 1900s
Eliasville
De Long Ward School
Elm
Grove School sign
Eola
School Feature
Eulogy
School 3-29-07
Eureka
School in Spunky Flat Feature
Evant
School
Falfurrias
High School class of 1953
Fly
Gap schoolhouse
Fort
McKavett Schoolhouse Feature
Fredericksburg's
"Vereins Kirche"
Friendship
School
Gallatin
Old Schoolhouse 1916
Gay
Hill one room schoolhouse
Glen
Rose High School Tiger Stadium sign
Granger
High School
Grapetown
Schoolhouse Feature
Hext
6-15-07
Holland
Houston
- Charles Elliot Elementary
Hovey
Schoolhouse Feature
Illinois
Bend
Indian
Creek School, Mills County
Indian
Gap Schools
Ingleside
Schools marker
6-18-07
Iowa
Park High School
Italy
High School
Jacksboro
High School
Jacksonville
- Frederick Douglass School
Jacksonville
Colleges
Jarrell School, 1928 and Class Photos
Jeddo
old Schoolhouse
Johnson
City Public School
Jonesboro
School
Juno
Schoolhouse
Justiceburg
Schoolhouse
Keene
School
Kendalia
School c.1930
Kent
School ruin
Kermit
Elementary School
Kerrick
School
Feature
7-15-07
Kimball
School
Kingsville
- Henrietta King High School
Kirtley
6-30-07
Knobbs
Springs old schoolhouse
Koerth
6-13-07
Kountze
High School
La
Joya
Lagarto
- Former School
Lelia
Lake
Leming
Elementary 6-30-07
Lesley
Schoolhouse
Lipan
High School
Lipscomb
School
Lolita
Lone
Grove old schoolhouse
Lowake
school (now community center)
Lubbock
- Senior High School
Lubbock
- Texas Tech College
Lyford
School, 1911
Mackay
Class of 1927
Manda
old schoolhouse
Marfa
High School
Marshall
High School
Marshall
Colleges
Masterson
- Bivins School
Maverick
Schoolhouse
McAllen
High School
3-17-08
McCaulley
School
McFaddin
School
Mesquite
1905 Schoolhouse
Middle
Water school ruins
Miles
High School
Millersview
School
Minerva
Schoolhouse
Moline
School Site
Moran
School 5-1-07
Morgan
- Union Hill School
9-29-07
Morgan
Mill High School
Morris
Ranch 1893 schoolhouse
Mosheim
Mozell
High School 10-11-07
Moulton
1-10-07
Muenster
- Sacred Heart School
9-14-07
Mullin
School
Mykawa
School
Nash
Public School and Marker
New
London School Explosion Feature
New
London - West Rusk High School Feature
New
Wehdem
Nixon-Smiley
High School
Noodle
- Cross Road School
Oakalla
- 1920 former schoolhouse
Oatmeal
- Stone schoolhouse 5-24-07
Odell
School 6-1-07
Odessa
High School
O'Donnell
High School
Oklahoma
Lane Schoolhouse
Old
Glory High School
Overton
School
Ozona
High School
Palestine
School
Pandale
Schoolhouse
Panna
Maria - children's water fountain
Pawnee
- School Bell
12-12-07
Peacock
Reunions
Pear
Valley
Perico
abandoned school
Pharr
School, 1911
Pharr-San
Juan-Alamo School, 1915
Pickens
old school
Placid
School 1-22-08
Plains
High School
Post
High School
Pottsville
School
Prairie
Mountain School 1-15-08
Premont
High School Cheerleaders 1953
Priddy
School
Purves
old school with windmill
Pyron
School
Ricardo
school mascot
Rice
Ranch Community School Children, c1912
Richardson
- Wheeler School 1-18-08
Ridge
old school
Rio
Grande City School, Burned
Rio
Hondo 4-7-08
Rock
Island School Picnic
Rock
Island Class of 1925
Rosser
Rowena
Schools
Rusk
High School
Salado
- Amity School circa 1906 8-14-07
San
Diego Schoolhouses 10-5-07
San
Jacinto School
Sanderson
High School
Santa
Anna High School
Santo
High School, old and new
School
Hill old schoolhouse
Scranton
Academy
1-31-08
Shady
Grove School
Sisterdale
old stone schoolhouse
Slocum
School
Smithville
School
Snyder
High School, 1900s
Sonora
High School
Spanish
Fort School
Speaks
former schoolhouse
Star
School
Starr
county unidentified school
Sterling
City ISD
Strawn
- Robinson Schoolhouse Feature
Swearingen
School, 1928
Tahoka
High School
Tankersley
School ( no photo)
Teague
High School
Tehuacana
School
Tennessee
Colony Community Center/School
Thornton
School architectural details
Tokio
School and historicla marker
Topsey
Toyah
Elementary & High School, 1912
Trickham
School
Trinity
schoolhouse (All Things Historical)
Trio
School - Haunted Feature
Tucker
- Green Bay High School
8-11-07
Tuleta
Agriculture High School 11-3-07
Tuleta's
burned "Grade School"
Tulia
Public School, 1908
Turkey
High School
Union
Grove High School Feature
Uvalde
High School
Valera
School, closed
Van
Alstyne
Vattmann
Vega
Public School
Velehrad
Vigo
Park
Water
Valley
Wayside
School
Waxahachie
- Park Public School
Weimar
Public School, early 1900s
Weldon
School
Wharton
County school bus c.1928
White
Deer Grade School
Whiteflat
School
Whiteland
School
12-7-07
Whitewright
Winedale
Schoolhouse
Wingate
Yancey
6-30-07
The Zephyr Public School Building
The
Zimmersheidt School - "The Last One Room Schoolhouse In Texas"
Feature
Colleges and Universities
Jarvis
Christian College by Archie P. McDonald 8-20-07
Obtaining a collegiate education presented a problem for African
Americans in Texas prior to court-ordered racial integration which
began in the 1950s... In Texas, especially East Texas, Wiley College
in Marshall and Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins were about the
only options for undergraduate instruction...
East
Texas Bapist University by Archie P. McDonald
6-18-07
East Texas Baptist College, now University, began
and remains in Marshall, Texas...
Another
College Among the Pines by Archie P. McDonald
We who give "All Hail to SFA" think of our University by one of
its earlier nicknames, "The College Among The Pines." That also
described another excellent institution headquartered in Carthage,
Texas, named Panola College after its host county.
Stephen
F. Austin State University by Archie P. McDonald
Add-Ran
College, now TCU, Thorp Spring
Dana
X. Bible and the Twelfth Man by Archie P. McDonald
A story about the life and contributions to Texas football by
Dana Xenophon Bible
Salado
College by Clay Coppedge
Tehuacana
- Westminster College
Texas
A & M University, a Brief History
Education
Ann
Whitney
2-10-08
Pioneer Schoolteacher
An
Influential Visit by Robert G. Cowser 5-28-07
"As a junior, I found myself on the teacher-certification track,
preparing to observe classes at the only high school in Commerce."
Rochester
Teacher by Mike Cox
School teaching has never been the best paying avocation, but the
terms of employment have definitely improved over the last century...
Kinkaid
School by Archie P. McDonald
Kinkaid School in Houston.
A.M.Aikin,
Jr. by Archie P. McDonald
"In these days of evaluating our schools—exemplary to acceptable
to whatever—and multiple special legislative sessions devoted to
figuring out how to spend more money on schools while taking in
less revenue, Texans might want to remember A.M. Aikin Jr., who
helped drag education and Texas into modern times..."
Austin
Grade School by Mike Cox
Austin being the capital of Texas, all the laws dealing with major
aspects of public education are made there. But the city has another
distinction when it comes to teaching children: It had the first
school in the state built entirely with public funds.
Ela
Hockaday More Than a School Omarm by Archie P. McDonald
Founder of the Miss Hockaday School for Girls in Dallas
The
Gilmer-Aikin Law by Archie P. McDonald, PhD
The landmark law passed by the Texas legislature that brought the
state's educational system at least and at last into the twentieth
century.
Remembering
Integration by Bob Bowman (From "All Things Historical")
Opinion
Global
Decline in Math and Science by Peary Perry
School Days
Remembering
school days
by Bob Bowman 11-19-07
Few things stir the nostalgia of our lives as the days we
spent in our schools decades ago.
Competing
with Elvis in the Classroom by Robert Cowser
11-15-07
Elvis Presley and a band called the Blue Notes performed on the
stage of the Humble Oil Company’s recreation building in Hawkins
one evening in January, 1955...
Cujo
by George Lester
I suppose there was one in every class, in every school, everywhere
in the country. A class hero. We had one in our class at Eureka
School.
School
Days
J.T. Brown as told to Louise George
Class of 31 in Dumas
The
Reluctant Thespian by George Lester
"The first grade at Lorena Grade School was putting on a play.
The students had been selected to play various nursery rhyme characters.
There was “Little Bo Peep”, “Goldie Locks”, “Little Jack Horner”
and many more. ..."
On
the Way to School (Oral History) by Louise George
Mules
to School by George Lester
The
Smorgasbord by George Lester
A school lunch story
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"It
seemed, as I recall it, a lonely little house of scholarship, with
its playground worn so bare, that even the months of sun and idleness
failed to bring forth any grass. But that humble little school had
a dignity of a fixed and far off purpose. It was the nest of the West's
greatness. It was the outpost of civilization. It was the advance
guard of the pioneer, driving the wilderness farther into the west.
It was life preparing wistfully for the future. The school was poorly
equipped, indeed, since it boasted only a few long, crude benches,
with no desks but the knees upon which to write. The teacher was afflicted
with the tobacco habit, which the ten small pupils accepted along
with other disadvantages".
James Rooney remembers the White House School in Fort Stockton as
it was in 1879. From the introduction to Journey From Ignorant Ridge,
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1976 |
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with its playground worn so bare, that even the months of sun and
idleness failed to bring forth any grass." - James Rooney
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