Malcolm Hunter, an early settler, built his home near Jim Ned Creek where Mud Creek and Buffalo Branch run together.  Malcolm went hunting southeast of their home where wild game was plentiful. While looking from a hill, later called “Bushy Top” and located about a mile due east of the site where the Buffalo School was later located, Hunter said to his son, “Bill, we will call this Buffalo Flat.”  Until the early 1900’s that was the name of the fertile prairie land in that area.  Buffalo Flat was later given the nickname of “Poverty Flat” a name that still stands today among some former residents.

People kept moving further west, settling in the Buffalo Flat country, an area located in both Coleman and Brown counties.  Realizing the need for a school in their community, several men met in the spring of 1893 to discuss the organization of a school district and raising money for a building.  Those at the meeting were W. F. “Willie” Curry, D. W. “Webb” Curry, E. N. and Molly (Curry) Voss, A. J. and Charlie Reeves, C. F. Wilson.  Lonzo McDaniel, R. M. Rainey, B. F. Tweedle and possibly one or two others.

The result of the meeting was a school building financed by private subscriptions and erected on a spot just north of where William and Aurelia (Tweedle) Brown now live (1983).  The school was given the name of Buffalo.  W. F. Curry and A. J. Reeves were trustees.  The school was located there three years, with teachers being Miss Lodie Williams (1893 - 1894), Miss Blanche Baker (1894 - 1895) and Miss Annie Brown (1895 - 1896).

In order to serve the growing community, a new and larger building was constructed in 1896 on the Lonzo McDaniel place with Curry, Reeves and R. R. Powell as trustees and Miss Annie Kidd (1897 - 1898) as teacher.

The Cross Tank School was across the county line in Brown County on land donated by Riley Cross.  The third school to make up the Buffalo School District was the Winn Ranch School.  In order to provide a good education for the children, the Buffalo citizens called an election for the consolidation of the three schools, a pioneer action in this part of the state.  The election carried, and the three schools, Buffalo, Cross Tank and Winn Ranch, met in the fall of 1914 in a modern two-story, four room school building located at the first Buffalo School site on the Brannon place.  Teachers the first year were Mr. Winn, Misses Lucille Grady and Kate Phillips.  Teachers the second year were J. L. P. (Pierce) Baker, Misses Ludile Grady and Anzo Perry.

Among the accomplishments of the school were establishment of a manual training class that helped with the construction of a teacherage and a water system.  The class also helped with the addition of two more rooms to the building, remodeling that more than doubled the size of the school building.  Using the Daniel Baker College gymnasium as a pattern, a gymnasium with a stage on the west and showers and dressing rooms was constructed in 1932 at a cost of only $3,000, the first gymnasium in Coleman County.

During the intervening years and the Fry Oil Field boom, the school increased in size with 225 students coming by foot, horseback and bus in 1931 - 1932.  Eleven teachers were on the faculty.  Trustees were W. J. Curry, Buford Curry and Brooke Peyton.

The gymnasium, built by the training classes and volunteer labor, became a main place of gathering.  It was later a sports center and place for conventions, musicals and roller skating, and other means of entertainment.

Longview School consolidated with Buffalo in 1933.  The patrons of the Buffalo school district provided for the needs of the school and its pupils, adding playground equipment and supplies.  The manual training classes also learned to run lines for terraces and were pioneers in soil conservation.

After World War II with people moving away from the country and as production dropped in the Fry Oil Field, the high school was closed, with the Class of 1948 the last to graduate from Buffalo High School.  Students went to Santa Anna or Bangs to complete high school after that time.  Arlie Harris was the last superintendent of the school.

Elementary classes were held at Buffalo for the last time in 1952 - 1953.  Teachers were W. D. and Birdie Page.  The large one-story brick school building that replaced the original frame structure was razed about three years later.

The land on which the buildings were located now stands idle - property of the Singletary family.  Concrete foundations are a mute testimony to the thriving place that once was the center of activity for Buffalo Flat for many, many years.