Milligan (Love Hill) School
by Nita Milligan, Virginia Zirkle and O. E. Shelton

from A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 
edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission 
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In 1880, or earlier, the Milligan family donated land for a school, which was named Milligan.  The small one-teacher school was located near the Milligan Crossing on Home Creek.  The first teacher was a Miss Bean.  She married after her first year and the new teacher was Bessie Moore.  She taught one year and married Fred Turner, one of three brothers, who owned a ranch south of Home Creek.  Artie Moore, her sister, taught a year and married Arthur Stewardson.  In 1891, Ben Talley sold his land north of the Double Gates community, later called Shields, to two Munn Brothers; one of them had married a young orphan girl who had seven brothers and sisters to raise.  One of these orphan children was Bessie Munn, who taught a year at Milligan and married Luther Stewardson.  Neill Munn began calling the school Love Hill, because the teachers usually fell in love and married, and Love Hill seemed to be an appropriate name, so it was nicknamed Love Hill.  All that remains of the school is the old underground cistern used to store water.  The land is still outside the pasture fence.  Milligan (Love Hill) consolidated with Shields in 1937.
 


 
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