Black plaque № 19350

Crockett, TX, United States

Jones School House. On land given by John Jesse Jones (1820-1872), who with his wife Margaret Kyle (1830-1896) moved from Alabama to Texas in the 1850s. The 1860s one-room log cabin school house was used also for church and community meetings. It was furnished with teacher's platform and hand-hewn,

peg-leg log benches. Two generations of children learned to read, write and figure here, before school was moved after 1900 into the woods about 1.5 miles northeast, and enlarged. It was consolidated

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