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

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Fgistory THE Fxasr SCHOOL AT CoLTou SUBSEQUENTLY P1Lor Kuna uns ESTAIH LISHED IN 1892. rr wAs SITUATED Aaour ous Ann onsnrounfl u1LEs sourn or THE PRESENT souoon. rr BDASTED AN ENRQLLMENT or som: FIFTEEN on rwzurv PUPILS UNDER THE euxnluoz or Mna. MoKuEN, THE FIRST TEACHER. PILUT KNOB WAS S0 NAMED FROM THREE HILLS THAT ARE IN THE OOMQ UUNITY. HUGE ROGKS ON THE GROUND INDICATE THAT THESE HILLS WERE ONCE AOTTNG VOLOANOS. THEY ARE HOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE SPRING WHEN THEY ARE COVERED WITH BLUEBONNETS, THE STATE FLOWER. THE FIRST SETTLERS wHo cAME T0 PILOT Knos WERE DONALD MQKEN- ZIE AND UAMINE McKENz1E. THEY WERE OF SCOTTISH DEscENT AND SETTLED HERE IN 1866. OTHER oLn SETTLERS wno CANE IN 1880, ARE Mn. a Mas. Fnau Snssunn. PiLoT KNOB wAs FIRST NAMED CoTToN, sEcAusE OF THE LARGE COTH TON CROPS RAISED IN THIS SECTION, BUT TT WAS LATER CHANGED T0 COLTON, WHEN A POSTOFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED. ilof Ends School of ISSZ.. -f-E-qw-1'-2-W-w E . . V.. ,, 4.

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