Gilliam School of Haskell Co

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
Mrs. B. J. Abbott, a widow, who resided in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi.

"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
provided by Richard Meador
From the keepsakes of his Grandmother,
Nettie Lee Sanders Meador

To 2nd page of Gilliam School Booklet

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