Bee Branch School
by Novella “Sug” Stearns and lola Bouchillon

from A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 
edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission 
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It is not known when Bee Branch School began, but records indicate that pupils from the Camp Colorado area attended school here for a time, during a lapse of education at the Camp, before 1900.  Bee Branch got its name from the bees in the area.  It was a school in the district with Madge, District #10, until 1914, when it was cut off from #10 and Bee Branch, District #69 was created.

Miss Bettie McCulloch was the teacher there in 1901 at the first school.  A later school was built in 1915.  This was a two-room school located north of the Eureka Church.  By 1924, Grades 1 through 10 were taught.  It was later consolidated with Buffalo School
The teacher of the lower grades in 1924 was Mrs. Chap Eads.  Her students would walk to school across 4 or more miles of pasture to attend, carrying their lunch pails and learning by the light of oil lamps.  Heat was supplied by coal stoves in the winter.  Students sat in rows of desks and worked on blackboards that covered the walls of the room.  Lunch was eaten outside on the school grounds.  Some of the children who attended Bee Branch School were from the Sharp, Lowe, Keeney, Owens, Story, Casey, Bates, Lovell and Eads families.
 


 
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