Black plaque № 54530

Katency, TX, United States

Peter's Prairie School. During the 1850s and 1860s, Mason County landowner “Major” Joshua Peters, supplied cut prairie grasses from here to Fort Mason for their horses. The community which developed took the name Peter’s Prairie. In 1877, John Rhoads and W.H. Morris petitioned county commissioners t

o open a community school on land deeded by Larkin Morris south of the present site. Rhoads, W.H. Morris, and C. Coalson were named trustees, and $149.60 was raised locally to fund the new picket scho

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