McCamey Junior High School - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This historic marker is located at 112 E 11th Street (at McKinney St) in McCamey.

Marker Number: 3277 Marker Text: Site is "Old High School," an outgrowth of 1920s oil boom. No school existed in McCamey prior to 1925, when 20 students were taught in a tin shack on 5th street. A year later school had 550 pupils in classes held in dance halls, skating rinks and 2 churches. Desks and seats were apple and orange crates. This building, erected in 1927, was community center setting for weddings, funerals, meetings of Draft Board, other activities. Used as high school until 1961. First superintendent, C. V. Compton, set high goals - which since have guided the schools. (1967)

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