W. H. Adamson High School
N 32° 44.818 W 096° 49.330
14S E 704043 N 3625334
The historic marker for W. H. Adamson High School in Oak Cliff.
Waymark Code: WMK8AN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2014
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A newly-installed (2012) historic marker in front of the historic W. H. Adamson High School (formerly Oak Cliff High School) in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas.
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"The school is named for W. H. Adamson, who became superintendent of the Oak Cliff School District shortly after moving to Oak Cliff in 1901. The school district later was annexed by the Dallas Independent School District, and when Oak Cliff High School was constructed, Adamson was named principal of the new school. He served as principal until 1934 and died a year later on 26 May 1935 at age 71. A week later, the school system renamed the school after Adamson.
Adamson High School was one of six high schools in Dallas in the 1930s and 1940s; the only other high school in Oak Cliff was Sunset High School, which was located about 19 blocks from Adamson High.
The location of Adamson High School is just four blocks from the Texas Theater where Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was captured.
The 1924 Oak Cliff High School football team won the state championship, one of only two DISD high schools to win a state football title (Sunset, in 1950 with the now-discontinued "City" championship, is the other). Carter High School was forced to forfeit its 1988 Class AAAAA title.
Around 2009 DISD planned to raze Adamson. Some Adamson alumni created a movement to have Adamson declared a Dallas landmark so that the district will be unable to raze the existing campus.[6] DISD is acquiring other property so it can build the new Adamson.
On June 8, 2011, W. H. Adamson High School was granted historical status by the Dallas City Council. Additionally in June 2011 the school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places."