Madge School
by Ralph Terry

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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In 1893, Madge became a post office in Coleman County, which was discontinued in 1907.  In 1904, Madge was called School District #10.  In 1907, the records of the County Commissioners show, “It is ordered by the court that the trustees of school District #10 are hereby authorized to sell that portion of the Madge School building formerly erected for an assistant’s room to sell for amount named in the petition filed herein to wit the sum of $40.00.”  In 1911, Madge is shown as a school under Santa Anna High School.  I have not found both Madge School and Bee Branch School mentioned in the same lists of schools.  I am told, however, that Madge was never a school, only that Bee Branch was a school.  Madge was a post office, voting place and store.  Possibly the district was named Madge and Bee Branch was a school in that district.  Whatever the case, Madge is not mentioned after 1911.
 


 
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