Last week we left Mr. Dan Hill being paid with money by some and valuable goods by others as he “taught” his private school during the summer time.
This week, we open with the (1) Colquitt (once called Centre Point) School, a oneteacher school with 20-25 students in 1916 after having 38 in 1901.
(2) Booker T. Washington School dates back to 1882 near the present Prairie View Cemetery and is best remembered for 1928, when Professor L. E. Claybon became its youngest Principal.
(3) Crandall High School was built in 1903 and featured four departments and a nice auditorium.
(4) East Fork Academy dates back to as early as 1884 and was early-on moved from one side of the road to the other and was later a square-framed building in use until 1947, when it consolidated with FISD.
(5) Scurry School—Records show a school near Scurry as early as 1860, but it was “gone” with the coming of the “war.” By 1918, there was a brick building. 1929—Scurry consolidated with four other schools to form one of the first rural high schools in the state.
(6) Post Oak Bend School—1841 saw a school building standing here while it was still the Republic of Texas. About 1920, a tworoom frame building housed the students.
(7) Parvin School—built in 1907 to replace the building at Union Grove. The teacher (Miss Beulah Ayres) walked three miles to get to the school to teach and received $45.00 per month and had received her certificate to teach from the “Summer Normal School” and Professor Mayo (which later became East Texas State University).
(8) Blackland School— 1901, 50 students listed— School began with 15 minutes of singing and then 15 minutes of exercising in 1926, with seven grades for one teacher to teach! She was supposed to sweep the floor each afternoon before leaving for the day.
We will return next week to see if she did a good job!
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