Spring Hill High School - Panther Yearbook (Longview, TX)

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HISTORY x . il 'f I ll YI ll I Il T ' 'L -.1 . ' 42 In 1887 a group of education-minded citizens made provisions to build a school. The site selected was a mile south of the present Spring Hill Community, and a one- room building was erected near a stream which came from a spring in a cliff, hence the name Spring Hill, In 1897 a new frame building was erected on the site now occupied by the Elmira Pres- byterian Church, next door to the present school. The building had two stories, the first for church and the second for school, I. R. Castleberry donated the land and the materials for the building, Sixty-five stu- dents attended. Frequently school did not adjourn until nightfall, the time depending upon the subject taught that day or the be- havior of the students. ll. , -. .un .Ss x : 60' l 1 ,- 1 2 5 4, '- a 4 . 00' AQ, o In 1915 a new two-room building was erected. Hundreds of people came to the area with the 1931 oil discovery and two new frame buildings were erected. In 1933 a modern brick building containing eight classrooms, kitchen, gymnasium, and audi- torium was erected, but with increasing numbers of students, a three-room wing was soon added. High school students were carried to Longview in two busses. The school kept growingg an eleven-room teacherage was built in 1934g a band hall and homemaking department in 1936, a cafeteria in 19385 a shop in 1940, and a library in 1941, The school became a high school in the school year of 1941-42 and twenty-five stu- dents graduated. The school had twenty- eight affiliated credits. The school plant now has six buildings, on a twelve -acre tract with swimming pool, football field and field house, a baseball park, and tennis court. I . . J.

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