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 Original Site of East Texas Normal College
N 33° 22.181 W 095° 41.269
15S E 249931 N 3695498
Texas Historical Marker noting the origins and history of the first incarnation of East Texas Normal College, in the 700 block of Southeast 1st Street, Cooper, TX.
Waymark Code: WMPK4N
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2015
Views: 2
Today, we call this college "Texas A&M University - Commerce."
Marker Number: 6935
Marker Text:
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.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1967
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