FIRST - Postmaster, Formal Education for Children - May, Texas
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YoSam.
N 31° 58.938 W 098° 55.227
14R E 507515 N 3538476
Small town, had breakfast here one morning...
Waymark Code: WM130P8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2020
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County of first: Brown County
Location of marker: US-183, community center, N. limits of May
Marker Erected by: Texs Historical Commission
Marker Text:
THE MAY COMMUNITY
Originally part of a Mexican land grant given to empresario John Cameron in 1827, May developed in the 1870s when several pioneer families settled here. Baptists and Methodists quickly organized churches.
A one-room school known as Old Swayback provided the first formal education for the children. Nathan L. May built a trading post in 1879 and became
the town's first postmaster in 1881. By 1907 the village had a blacksmith shop, general store, newspaper and bank. The early history of May climaxed in 1911 with the coming of the railroad.
(1981)
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