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East Texas Normal College, Original Site of |
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SE 1st St., Cooper,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
33° 22' 9.01691000004",
-95° 41' 12.84149000004"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Founded 1889 by W. L. Mayo (1861 - 1917), a teacher educated in Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana, who came to Pecan Gap, Texas in 1886. He was a native of Kentucky. He attracted a strong faculty to college on this site. A young teacher he soon married was a capable business manager. A high board fence enclosed campus here. The one building (T-shaped, 2-story, typical of its era, with porches upstairs and down), housed a dynamic school until razed by fire in 1894. Mayo was given aid to rebuild in Commerce; school survives as East Texas State University. RTHL - 1967
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
East Texas Normal College, Original Site of Historical Marker Location Map, Cooper, Texas
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