Bartlett, TX, United States
Site of Booker T. Washington School. With overcrowded buildings at the African American school in southwestern Bartlett, the Bartlett trustees bought four buildings from Camp Swift in Bastrop to enlarge the facilities. A bond issue passed in 1948, and plans began for a U-shaped building. Otto Lange
served as contractor for the schoolhouse, built here, on the former site of the Bartlett Civilian Conservation Corps Camp. Gentry "Prof" Powell, Sr., and his wife, who had both served at the original
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