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Other Villages and Schools  

An occasional mention of teachers assigned to the various schools is almost the only record remaining of some of the small communities that once filled Caldwell County. One such list for 1912-1913 included two teachers at School No. 4, Prairie View; one teacher at School No. 8, McCutchan, one teacher at No. 10, Seals’ Creek; two teachers at No. 12, Oakland; one teacher at No. 13, White Oak; two teachers at No. 16, Shook; one teacher at No. 24, Oak Ridge; one contract not filed at No. 27, Union Center; one contract not filed at No. 30, Unity; one teacher at No. 31, Rock Water Hole; one teacher at No. 35, Union Grove; one teacher at No. 36, Mercer; one teacher at No. 39, Welgand (Wiegand); and one teacher at No. 41, Schroeder.

A photo collage appearing in a 1923 newspaper included a dim picture of the school at Post Oak Prairie as well as a group of students posed in front of the Union Center School. Some of those schools were still providing an education for children in the 1930s. Prairie View had three teachers while Oakland and Oak Ridge each had only one instructor. Unity, however, had expanded to two teachers.

Not always mentioned in the newspaper lists of the 1920s and 1930s were schools for Black and Hispanic children such as Union Hill, Lovely Plain or St John’s.

Sources –
1. “Schools and Teachers of Caldwell County for Year 1912-1913”
2. The Broadcaster – Caldwell County, “Teacher Schools of Caldwell Co.”, Lockhart, Texas, Tuesday, May 1, 1923
3. “History of the Schools of Caldwell County to 1900”, Master’s Thesis prepared by Carroll L. Mullins, August, 1929, pages 134 - 135
4. Lockhart Post-Register, “Carter Riggins (1824-1887)”, Lockhart, Texas, December 7, 1972
5. Lockhart Post-Register, “UT historians study local common schools”, Lockhart, Texas, Thursday, June 21, 1979
6. The Citizen, “Union Hill School, Former Teacher Remembers 20s and 30s”, Lockhart, Texas, Thursday, February 1, 1990
7. The Tri-County News, “Roster of Caldwell County Teachers for the 1937-1938 School Term”, Luling, Texas, September 9, 1937

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