Gilliam School - District 35
Haskell County, Texas
from "Cowpokes and
Sodbusters" by Betty and R. S. Sanders "In 1907, J. H. and Dena Goodwin sold a small plot of land out of the John Conner Survey 73 for a school site. There the first Gilliam School was constructed. It was about six miles north of Haskell on what today is FM 2163 (Haskell-Knox City Highway).
"The Gilliam School
remained at that location for the next nineteen years.
In 1926 the district built a new schoolhouse about a mile north, on
the same road, on a site purchased from "In 1938 the trustees contracted all their 40 children to the Haskell School and in 1944 Gilliam consolidated with three schools. Most of the citizens of Gilliam chose to send their children to Haskell School...." |
Gilliam School Booklet
ca 1910-1915
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