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

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1 or Tgzsiorg THE FIRST SCHDDL TAUGHT IN WHAT IS NOW DIsTRIcT 50 IAS TKUEHT IN 1879 IN AN OLD PIGKET House ON THE OLD ALLEN FARM BY Miss ANNIE GAUBEE. SHE SAT IN A HOME-MADE CHAIR- THE CHILDREN sAT DN BENOHES HAnE or SPLIT ELH Loss DRESSED SMOOTH. AUGER HOLES WERE Eonen IN THE ROUGH SIDE AND sTAxEs DRIVER INTo THEM FOR Leos. EAEH EENDH FHRNIsHEo SEATS Fon FIVE OH SIX PUPlLSo ABGUT 1881 THE FIRST scHooL HOUSE IN THIS DISTRICT BUILT Fon SCHOOL PURPOSES ALONE wAs LOCATED on THE JIM BREWTON FAHH, HENOE THE NAME BREWTON SPRINGSQ THEN THE NORTH SIDE OF THE OoLoRAuo RIVER WAS IN DISTRICT 50. THIS WAS THE HosT OENTRALLY LOCATED AND SEVERAL sooo TERMS WERE TAUGHT THERE. WILL HARMDN, MR. CALDWELL AND JIH FINLET WERE AMONG ouR TEACHERS IN THE 'ElGHTlESn. THEN cAHE A SPLIT CAUSED av A BHIFT IN scHoLAsTIcs AND A SMALL HOUSE WAS BUILT AT WALNUT SPRINGS ON THE OLD HUGH ALLEN PLADE JN THE WEST END OF THE DISTRICT. AS YEARS PASSED THE TWO HOUSES IN UNE DISTRlCT PROVED T00 HANY, AND THE TERM wAs TAueHT HALF AT ONE HOUSE AND HALF AT THE 0THERs FINALLY THE WALNUT SPRINGS HOUSE BURNEDn ABOUT 1896 THE BREWTON SPRINGS HOUSE wAs Haven T0 A POINT ON THE THOMAS RILEY rLAeE NEAR THE PRESENT SCHOOL HOUSEA In 190k IT HAS AGAIN uovEn T0 BREWTON SPRINGS, REMODELED AND SEATEDn THIS CAUSED TROUBLE AND FOUR on FIVE YEARS LATER ENOUGH oF THE LUKBER WAS USED T0 BUILD THE PRESENT HDUSE AS IT I6.TODAT. IN THE AEIGHTIES' FDRTY T0 FIFTT FuPILs ATTENDED scHooL AT BREWTON SPRINGS- SINCE THAT TIME WE HAVE NEVER HAD THAT NUMBER, auT FDR TEN YEARS ouR ENROLLMENT HAS GROWN UNTIL Now IT Is TNIRTY-FOUR SGHOLASTlCSn SINCE 1902 MY WIFE AND I HAVE FURNISHED A HOME AT ouR PLACE FoR FOURTEEN TEACHERS THRounHouT THE TERM. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Miss MATTIE MoRaAN, MYSS'ESTELL HINKELL, Miss BERNIcE BOLTON, Mlss KATIE CLAHN, MTss LEoNA HILL, Mnss BERNJOE Mccowen, Mrss NETTIE Jovce, Mlss EARTIE CALEHELL, MISS HATTIE RoaINsoN, Miss GERTRUDE SLDAN, Misa IRENE HARDIN IND MRS. REED. A soHooL HID Fon TEN YEARS ANo A TRUSTEE Fon THIRTY on Hone YEARs IN THIS DISTRICT, I AM Youns, HERBERT HJ ALLEN

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