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

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EJ l I isfarty I I I I I m I I I IN 1866 A LOG HOUSE WAS BUILT JUST ABOVE SPICEWOODS SPHIMDS wHIcH THE PEOPLE NAMED ESPEHANZA, A SPANISH WORD, THEY TOOK T0 MEAN PRETTY on BEAUTIFUL. THIs NAME wAs cHosEN BECAUSE or THE BEAUTIFUL SGENERY.MAOE BY THE HILLS AND EVER- GREENS WHICH SURHOUNDED THE LITTLE BUILDING. THIS LITTLE LOG HOUSE wAs USED Fon sEvEN YEARS. THE SCHOOL WAS THEN MOVED T0 THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE OLD COUNTY FARM, NOW owNED BY THE MCELHOY ESTATE. THE SCHOOL HEMAINED AT THIS LOCATION UNTIL 1893, WHEN A ONE-ROOM FRAME BUILD ING wAs coNsTnucTED AT THE PRESENT SIGHT THE BUILDING WAS TORN DOWN IN 1922 T0 MAKE WAY ERECTED T0 FACE THE WEST INSTEAD or THE EAST.. IN THE STRUCTURE TO ACCOMODATE THE ENROLLMENT. ON THE UPPER GEORGETOWN RDAD. Fon A MODERN TWO-ROOM BUILDING i93h A THIRD-ROOM WAS ADDED T0 SQHOOL IS A SPANISH WORD, THERE IS N0 RECORD OF A SPANISH DB'MEXICAN CHILD EVER ATTENDING THE SCHOOL- THE DISTRICT HAS NEITHER A MEXICAN NDR A NEGHO SCHOOL. EVEN THOUGH THE NAME OF THE THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOL OF 1893 CCLASS OF 19085 M I I I I ff, I T