Stephen Alexander McBride
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N 30° 58.207 W 093° 42.412
15R E 432496 N 3426504
This post-mounted subject marker stands next to the Shankleville Community marker on the southwest side of FM 1415 in Burkeville.
Waymark Code: WM11WM2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/29/2019
Views: 5
Marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission.
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry McBride, Stephen Alexander
Address
City Burkeville vicinity
County Newton
Marker Year 2008
Marker Location Shankleville community
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 14658
Marker Text:
As a co-founder of the Shankleville community, Stephen McBride worked to improve the lives of fellow African Americans. Stephen was born a slave in Texas in 1834. After emancipation, he and Jim Shankle bought land in northern Newton County, forming the nucleus of a community of homes, churches and businesses. McBride owned a cotton gin, store, blacksmith shop, and syrup, saw and grist mills in Shankleville. His most enduring contribution was McBride College (1883-1909), the gift of a man who could not read or write but valued education for young people. The two-story school building also served as a community center and site of religious revivals. Stephen McBride died in 1920.
(2008)
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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