The school district of Union Hill was organized and began having school in 1910.  It was District #59.  It was made up of part from the Camp Colorado, Lone Star and Watts Creek school districts.  The school was built at this location in order to cut down on the distance to the other schools, thus making a total of four schools in an overall distance of six or seven miles.  This gives one an idea of how the travel situation was back in those days.  As in most cases, schools were not more than some two miles apart.  Some of the first trustees were Joe R. Brooke, George MacNamara, Roger Mills, W. O. Gray, John M. Elkins, Jr. and Lee Keeney.  The school, through most of its time, was a one-teacher school except possibly two or three years at different times when there were two teachers.  Classrooms were separated by a canvas or duck partition.  Some of the teachers from 1910 until 1934 were Miss Ora Campbell, Miss Mattie Day, Miss Lestie Cochran, Mr. Campbell, Mrs. Raymond (Atha) McElrath, Miss Pheriaba Shield, Miss Naoma Casey, J. H. Martin, Miss Osa Arnold and Miss Mary (Folk) Kemp.

One special and main event was a basketball game played at Watts Creek on Thanksgiving Day each year.  Union Hill schoolers would
travel to this event by horseback; needless to say the event was readily enjoyed by everyone.

During the summer, after the cotton crops were laid by, there would be a revival meeting held at the school site.  Two of the preachers were J. C. Strickland and Harvey Miller.  After the meetings, there would be summer singing classes, usually held by or led by Arel Bertrand and George Bobo.  By this time, it was maize-heading time, and in those days the only maize known was the kind that had to be harvested by hand with a pocket-type maize heading knife.

One of the landmarks in the community was called the Gillis Monument.  This was an overpass built on the road between Union Hill and Camp Colorado by a fellow named Gillis.  It was to be used for a cattle crossing, as the road was fenced through his land.  Built pretty high, it is recalled as quite a bit of trouble at times for the early day motorist traveling over it.  This is how it came to be known as a monument.  Another early day landmark was “The Keeney Grove,” a beautiful picnic ground at the Hords Creek crossing between what was later known as Cross Roads and Watts Creek.  Also near Union Hill was the Eastland oil field, where the first big oil strike in the county was made.  The field was covered with tall oil derricks used in those days for pumping wells.  Most were built of wood by crews known as rig builders.

The Union Hill schoolhouse was used for all community-wide activities.  There was no church nearby, and as the Baptist folks were most numerous in the community, the county Baptist missionary came regularly and preached at the noon hour.  Sunday School was held in the afternoons at three.  There are several old homes in this community, perhaps the oldest being owned by Dr. Jack M. Gordon of Coleman, and known as the “old Ken Elkins home.”

Consolidation of the Union Hill, Camp Colorado and Watts Creek Schools came in the year 1934-35, with the Lone Star School coming in a year later, forming Cross Roads School.