Former Bartlett Grammar School Bell -- Bartlett TX
N 30° 47.862 W 097° 25.865
14R E 650102 N 3408234
The old Bartlett Grammar School bell summoned students to class from 1909 to 1988.
Waymark Code: WMTKCE
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/03/2016
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The former Bartlett Grammar School is located at 300 W. Bell St. in Bartlett. It was built in 1909, and closed almost 80 years later.
The old school bell that called students to class still stands outside of this landmark school building.
A state historic marker at the front of the building reads as follows:
"THE BARTLETT GRAMMAR SCHOOL
By the early 1900s Bartlett had become the railroad center of a prosperous cotton growing region. In 1903 the Bartlett Independent School District was created. By 1906-07 the 5-room schoolhouse here proved inadequate to house the district's expanding student enrollment. Bartlett enlarged the district's tax base and passed a bond election, and in 1908-09 a new multi-wing brick building, designed by noted Austin architect A.O. Watson, was built here. When a new high school was erected in 1917, the facility at this site became an elementary/grammar school. The school closed in 1988. (1994)"
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