Details for Woodland College for Boys
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5161009913
Data
| Marker Number | 9913 |
| Atlas Number | 5161009913 |
| Marker Title | Woodland College for Boys |
| Index Entry | Woodland College for Boys |
| Address | |
| City | Kirvin |
| County | Freestone |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 751704 |
| UTM Northing | 3519570 |
| Subject Codes | educational topics |
| Marker Year | 1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | 2 mi. NW of Kirvin on FM 1449 at entrance to Woodland Cemetery |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 1936 Centennial Marker (gray granite) |
| Marker Text | Established in 1863. Enrollment more than 300 students. Colonel L. R. Wortham donated ten acres of land for use as a campus, church and cemetery. Charter trustees: Col. L. R. Wortham, Thomas Lamb, Dr. Rueben Anderson, Oliver Carter, John I. Winn, D. L. Carter, Noland Womack, T. L. Sessions, G. A. Sessions. Prof. Hellery Moseley was its only president. Mattie, Mary and Thomas Dixon were its teachers. The college became a grade school at the close of the Civil War. Discontinued in 1905 and moved to Kirvin. |