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

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'gisforg 1385 moz HISTORY or RIcHLAND ScHDoL IN 1877 MR. F. SDHNIDT, JR. SAW THE NEED or EDucATIDN AND OFFERED HIS HOME AS A PLACE FDR scHDoL. Miss RUSH TAUGHT THE FIRST TERNQ THE FOLLOWING TEAR, 1878, A JOINT HEETIND or THE PEOPLE or THE QOMMUNITY UNDER THE DIRECTION or MR. SCHMIDT HESULTED IN A SCHOOL ON THE ONE ACRE OF LAND DDNATED av MR. SCHMIDT- A vERv SIMPLE STRUCTURE WAS QUILT AND NAMED -RIcHLAND- IN HONOR or THE RICH LAND IN THE DISTRICT. AT THAT TIME THERE wERE No coNvENIENcEs IN THE cLAssRooN NDR PLAYGRUUND FACILITIES. THE FIRST TERMS wERE VERY SHORT AND POORLY ATTENDED. DURING 1881 AND 1882 REV. ScHnoEDER TAueHT THE SCHDULE THE FIRST TRUSTEES HERE ELECTED ABOUT THIS TIME AND THEY PAID REV. ScHnDEDEn 3500, Fon PREACHINQ ONE YEAR AND TEACHING Foun MONTHS- IN 1885 THE oouNTY CAME T0 THE AID OF RICHLAND DISTRICT. Two ACRES or LAND WERE GIVEN AT THE SITE WHERE THE PRESENT SCHOOL IS LOCATED. THE OLD SCHOOL wAs SOLD AND A NEW DNE BUILT. UNTIL 1895 THE scHooLHousE ALSO sERvED AS A cHuRcH. ABOUT THIS TIME THE STATE DEDAN T0 ruHNIsH ENOUGH FUNDS T0 ENGAGE FuLL-TIHE TEACHERS. IN 1902 RICHLAND COMMUNITY VOTED AN ExTRA BOND WHICH HAS THE FIRST SCHOOL BOND VDTED IN THE COUNTY NORTH DF THE COLORADO RlVEH.v THIS sono ENABLED THE DISTRICT T0 ENLARGE T0 A TWO TEACHER scHooL. ABDUT THIS TIME, WILLIAM PFENNIG, JR., BECAME PRINCIPAL or THE SCHDOL- IN 1917 ANOTHER Hoon wAs ANNEXED AND THE SCHOOL AcQuIRED A THIRD TEACHER. CREDIT IS DUE ITE FIRST FAcuLTY, ADELE KRUDER, PRINDIPAL, AND HER ASSISTANT, MISS NELL KHUEGER, AND M' THEODORE KNIDNEH. IN 1927 A NEW MODERN THREE-ROOM BUILDING wAs CONSTBUCTED.

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