Details for Woodland College for Boys

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5161009913

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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.

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