Dido School
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 32° 57.121 W 097° 29.103
14S E 641603 N 3646986
Texas Historical Marker at the site of the former Dido School, inside Dido Cemetery, one of the few remnants of the Dido community on FM 1220 northwest of Fort Worth. It provides some history of the community and the school that served it.
Waymark Code: WMZ9B0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/03/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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Marker Number: 14270

Marker Text:
The Dido community was one of the first established in Tarrant County. By 1848, settlers homesteaded in this part of Peters Colony, establishing a community along a stage route from Fort Worth to Decatur. Dido School organized in 1854, with A.C. McCanne of Missouri as the first teacher. His wife Margaret Caroline (Fulton) taught here in the 1860s while A.C. served in the Confederate Army. Classes were sometimes held in church buildings, and later trustees built a schoolhouse adjacent to Dido Cemetery. Regional development from the Rock Island Railroad (1892), Eagle Mountain Lake (1931) and a Marine training base (1941) caused school attendance in Dido to decline. The Tarrant County School Board closed Dido School in 1947. (2008)

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