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Black plaque № 17648

Rosebud, TX, United States

Site of Wilson School. The Wilson School that once stood here traced its history to the 1890s, when entrepreneur William Anderson Barclay deeded one acre of land for a schoolhouse. Typical of many rural schools in Texas in the late nineteenth century, the Wilson School was functional in design. Buil

t of clapboard construction and topped with a shingle roof, the building contained three rooms. Two rooms were classrooms; one for grades one through four, the second for grades five through eight. Th

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