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Cannon, Texas

There was no public school during the mid 1800s.  The first school at Cannon was built just after the Civil War came to a close and was known as “Centennial Institute”.  The school had a dormitory connected with it that had 30 rooms.  The building was destroyed by fire in the late 1880s. 


source: History of Grayson Co., Texas, vol I by Grayson County Frontier Village, c1979
Pg 206. Cannon, Elijah by Mrs. J.R. Cannon



Cannon School History
Susan Hawkins
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