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Black plaque № 19531

Corsicana, TX, United States

Oak Valley School. Oak Valley was one of thirty school districts created in Navarro County in 1867 by County Judge John L. Miller and a committee composed of E. G. Melton, John M. Bright, L. H. Dunham, J. C. Wells, J. M. Quinlan, and G. W. Foster. Classes were not held, however, until the 1870s afte

r a new constitutional provision allowed for the levying of taxes for public education. During the late 1870s a one-room schoolhouse was constructed to serve the surrounding rural area. In 1894 an acr

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