 The school at Gordonville was
located about 13 miles north of Whitesboro. Although the building was
always in the same location - near the Baptist Church and the Methodist
Church, the structure did change.
The first three-room building burned in 1910. Some believe that it was set on fire because a buggy with two horses was seen and heard racing out of town in the darkness. A five-room school was built and gradation at Tenth Grade was held in the 1920s. Enrollment continued to decline. Grades up to high school were schooled in Gordonville. The higher grades went to Whitesboro. Eventually only a two-teacher school remained. The five-room school building was remodeled with a separate auditorium. Gordonville was a Common School District under the Grayson County School Superintendent's office in Sherman. Attempts to get a consolidated school near Gordonville in the 1930s failed. Finally Gordonville consolidated with Whitesboro Independent School District. The school building was the social center of the town with pie suppers, box suppers, P.T.A. meetings, operettas, plays put on by outsiders, a womanless wedding, an Old Maids' Convention and a Literary Society that met two times per month. The school had a orchestra at one time directed by Ernest Hamilton with a Band Wagon in which they traveled around for performances. by Neva Pinkston  Gordonville School History Schools Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |