Travis County Rural Schools - Defender Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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MISTGRY FIRST GRADUATES HISTORY THE FIRST CREEDMOOR SDHDDL WAS BUILT IN 1880. IT WAS LOCATED WHERE THE WILL KEIKE HOME NOW STANDS, WHICH IB A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL IILES FROM THE LOGA- TION OF THE PRESENT SCHOOL. MISS IDA RICE WAS THE TEACHER OF THIS SMALL ONE- TEACHER SCHOOL. THE SCHOOL BOARD CONSISTED OF DR. R. AITDN, JAKE STEUSSEY, AND J. D. CAMPBELL. A NUMBER OF YEARS LATER THE scHooL WAS MOVED TO THE BITE WHERE THE CREED- moon GIN IS NOW LOCATED. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE WILLow SPRINGS SCHOOL, THIS NAME APPAHENTLY HAVING BEEN CHOSEN BECAUSE OF THE MANY WILLDN TREES IHIOH SUHROUNDED THE NEARBY SPRINGS. IT WAS AT FIRST A oNE-TEAcHEn SCHOOL WITH Mass BELL MILLER AS TEAcHEn. LATER ANOTHER noon WAS ADDED AND THE FACULTY IIONEABED TO Two TEA' cHEns. AN INCREASED ENHDLLNENT HESULTED IN THE ERECTION OF A FOUR-ROOM BUILDING IN 1909. THIS WAS BUILT WHERE THE PRESENT SCHOOL BUILDING IS NOW LOCATED. THE FIRST PRINcIPAL IN THIS BUILDING WAS MH. GRINDSTAFF. THIS BUILDING WAS SWEPT AWAY BY A DISASTEHOUS OYCLONE IN THE YEAR OF 1921. SCHOOL WAS OONDUCTED IN THE MASONIC HALL WHILE THE PRESENT BUILDING WAS BEING PLANNED AND GONSTRUCTED. THIS COVERED A PERIOD OF AFPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS. THE PRESENT BUILDING, A anlon STRUCTURE OF sIx Rooms HAS DDMPLETED AND OOOUPIED IN 1923. W. G. SCOTT SERVED AS ITS FIRsT rnINcIPAL. IN THIS BUILDING VARIOUS TEACHERS HAVE TAUGHT, MANY PUPILS HAVE PASSED THHDUQH ITS noone, A NUMBER OF TRUSTEES HAVE SERVED IT, AND MANY PATRONS HAVE SUPPORTED IT. IT STANDS A8 A MDNUMENT T0 THE SINOERE EFFORTS OF THESE anouvsg IT WILL SURVIVE THE STRESS AND STEIFE or TIME IF THosE WHO FOLLOW WILL so LOYALLY SUPPORT IT AS DID THEIR AN- CESTORS.

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