Asa Walker School (Desert)
Asa Walker School (Desert)
Desert School
Asa Walker School # 15
SH 121 at SH 161
Desert, Texas
A man named Asa Walker moved to Texas in November 1835…. At some point Asa Walker donated land for a school and teacherage in the Desert (Crossroads) area. The land for the teacherage was sold in 1955 to the Desert Cemetery Association. (The deed is listed in Vol. 576, p 292, and was for about 1 ¼ Acres)
Desert and Crossroads was used equally in referring to the Desert area and to the school and stores and churches. At one time there were separate schools for Desert and Crossroads, but they were united into the Asa Walker School District by an act recorded in a 1917 Journal of the Texas House of Representatives. An act was passed to authorize and empower the Asa Walker County Line School District #15, in Collin, Grayson, and Fannin Counties (Texas) to hold an election for the purpose of merging two or more schools into one school district (the Asa Walker School District).
A January 28, 1915 edition of the McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette stated that the County Superintendent W. E. Foster had visited … Cross Roads and Desert School. There was a meeting held Thursday night at Cross Roads Church, about half way between the Cross Roads and Desert School buildings, by patrons of both districts for the purpose of considering consolidation of the two schools and forming a rural high school.
The Plano Star Courier on February 18, 1915 stated that the Commissioners’ Court Thursday passed an order consolidating the Mt. Carmel (Desert) and Cross Roads school districts. The Weekly Gazette stated that the district comprised 10 square miles. The Mt. Carmel District was listed as District # 15 and was located on CR 534.
The Desert school was located across SH 78 from the Crossroads Cemetery and slightly to the south and east…. The school operated until 1955 and went through the eighth grade. Students were sent to Trenton, Blue Ridge, Whitewright or Westminster for secondary school. When the school was closed, women used the building for sewing and quilt making.
Desert School
Asa Walker School # 15
SH 121 at SH 161
Desert, Texas
A man named Asa Walker moved to Texas in November 1835…. At some point Asa Walker donated land for a school and teacherage in the Desert (Crossroads) area. The land for the teacherage was sold in 1955 to the Desert Cemetery Association. (The deed is listed in Vol. 576, p 292, and was for about 1 ¼ Acres)
Desert and Crossroads was used equally in referring to the Desert area and to the school and stores and churches. At one time there were separate schools for Desert and Crossroads, but they were united into the Asa Walker School District by an act recorded in a 1917 Journal of the Texas House of Representatives. An act was passed to authorize and empower the Asa Walker County Line School District #15, in Collin, Grayson, and Fannin Counties (Texas) to hold an election for the purpose of merging two or more schools into one school district (the Asa Walker School District).
A January 28, 1915 edition of the McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette stated that the County Superintendent W. E. Foster had visited … Cross Roads and Desert School. There was a meeting held Thursday night at Cross Roads Church, about half way between the Cross Roads and Desert School buildings, by patrons of both districts for the purpose of considering consolidation of the two schools and forming a rural high school.
The Plano Star Courier on February 18, 1915 stated that the Commissioners’ Court Thursday passed an order consolidating the Mt. Carmel (Desert) and Cross Roads school districts. The Weekly Gazette stated that the district comprised 10 square miles. The Mt. Carmel District was listed as District # 15 and was located on CR 534.
The Desert school was located across SH 78 from the Crossroads Cemetery and slightly to the south and east…. The school operated until 1955 and went through the eighth grade. Students were sent to Trenton, Blue Ridge, Whitewright or Westminster for secondary school. When the school was closed, women used the building for sewing and quilt making.
