Shiner vicinity, TX, United States
Site of Beasley School. School-age children in this part of Lavaca County first attended the Broom Weed school on South Mustang Creek as early as 1885. Mary Singer taught all the children in a single classroom. In 1890 the crude frame schoolhouse was deemed inadequate, and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Beasley
opened the second floor of their home for classes. That same year the Beasleys donated an acre of land for a new one-room school building. Mary Boone was the first teacher in the new school, renamed
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