Coppell's FIRST School Buildings - Coppell, TX
N 32° 57.279 W 097° 00.455
14S E 686233 N 3648021
A sign placed by the Coppell Historical Society stands at the sidewalk at 511 W Bethel Rd, providing some information for the city's earliest school buildings, now only a memory.
Waymark Code: WM16E76
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2022
Views: 1
The sign reads:
School was held as early as 1880 in a log cabin approximately one mile east of this location near the present Bullock Cemetery. When the First Methodist Church was built across the street from this marker in 1896, classes met for a short time in the church building. The first official school building in Coppell, probably built in the late 1890s, was a two-room building located approximately 160 feet south of this marker. In 1907, it was replaced with a two story white frame building that housed eight grades in four rooms, located about 70 feet closer to present W. Bethel Road.
In 1928, three area schools - Bethel, Gentry, and Coppell Schools consolidated and a new brick building was constructed on the north side of present Southwestern Boulevard, currently the site of Pinkerton Elementary School.
The Coppell Historical Society
2014
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1880
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