Nolanville School
Nolanville, Bell County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Pioneers who settled this area in the early 1850s built a 1-room log schoolhouse about 1854. That year Bell County was divided into 15 school districts. Nolanville School moved to several different sites in the area. In 1928-29 the last high school class graduated from a 2-story brick schoolhouse in Nolanville. At various times after 1929 the school offered classes in nine or eight grades. At the time of its merger with Killeen's Independent School District in 1972 Nolanville was a six-grade elementary school. A new Nolanville school was built at this site in 1986. (1994)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Settlers who reached this part of Bell County in the early 1850s built a one-room log schoolhouse around 1854, the same year the county was carved into fifteen school districts. Over the decades Nolanville School moved among several sites, grew to a two-story brick building whose last high school class graduated in 1928–29, and gradually shrank to an elementary school. It merged into the Killeen district in 1972, and a new Nolanville school rose on this spot in 1986.
Why it matters
Its long life traces the evolution of rural public education in Texas, from a frontier log cabin to a consolidated modern district.
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