Texas Schools and One-Room Schoolhouses. (original) (raw)

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 School Buildings &

One Room Schoolhouses

Texas Schoolhouse List

Most Modest Building �The Most Modest of Buildings� By Mary S. Black Photos by Bruce F Jordan Excerpted From "Early Texas Schools: A Photographic History� The Schools We Knew by Bob Bowman From the 1800s to shortly after World War II, East Texas was made up mostly of farming communities,... almost every community had a school which acted as the glue that held each settlement together...
School playground "... with its playground worn so bare, that even the months of sun and idleness failed to bring forth any grass." - James RooneyTE Photo

"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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Crimes * Murder at a school by Bob Bowman
During the evening of March 12, 1926, as students and parents watched a play at Center Point school in Trinity County...

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U.S. SCHOOLHOUSES &

ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES