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Other Villages and
Schools
An occasional mention
of teachers assigned to the various schools is almost the only record remaining
of some of the small communities that once filled Caldwell County. One such list
for 1912-1913 included two teachers at School No. 4, Prairie View; one teacher
at School No. 8, McCutchan, one teacher at No. 10, Seals’ Creek; two teachers at
No. 12, Oakland; one teacher at No. 13, White Oak; two teachers at No. 16,
Shook; one teacher at No. 24, Oak Ridge; one contract not filed at No. 27, Union
Center; one contract not filed at No. 30, Unity; one teacher at No. 31, Rock
Water Hole; one teacher at No. 35, Union Grove; one teacher at No. 36, Mercer;
one teacher at No. 39, Welgand (Wiegand); and one teacher at No. 41, Schroeder.
A photo collage
appearing in a 1923 newspaper included a dim picture of the school at Post Oak
Prairie as well as a group of students posed in front of the Union Center
School. Some of those schools were still providing an education for children in
the 1930s. Prairie View had three teachers while Oakland and Oak Ridge each had
only one instructor. Unity, however, had expanded to two teachers.
Not always mentioned
in the newspaper lists of the 1920s and 1930s were schools for Black and
Hispanic children such as Union Hill, Lovely Plain or St John’s.
Sources –
1. “Schools and Teachers of Caldwell County for Year 1912-1913”
2. The Broadcaster – Caldwell County, “Teacher Schools of Caldwell Co.”,
Lockhart, Texas, Tuesday, May 1, 1923
3. “History of the Schools of Caldwell County to 1900”, Master’s Thesis prepared
by Carroll L. Mullins, August, 1929, pages 134 - 135
4. Lockhart Post-Register, “Carter Riggins (1824-1887)”, Lockhart, Texas,
December 7, 1972
5. Lockhart Post-Register, “UT historians study local common schools”, Lockhart,
Texas, Thursday, June 21, 1979
6. The Citizen, “Union Hill School, Former Teacher Remembers 20s and 30s”,
Lockhart, Texas, Thursday, February 1, 1990
7. The Tri-County News, “Roster of Caldwell County Teachers for the 1937-1938
School Term”, Luling, Texas, September 9, 1937
The Plum Creek Almanac is a project of
The Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County.
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Updated
10/15/2019
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