Bass School
The Bass School was located in an area of Frisco known as “the Flats” about one-quarter mile west of town and one and one-half miles north of FM 720 near the present-day Dallas North Tollway; in Collin County just inside the Collin/Denton County line.
As early as 1869 Miranda Bass conducted a private school in her home. Later when a school house was built about one and one-half miles from the Bass home it became the Bass public school. The small wood frame building with simple homemade desks was under the jurisdiction of the Farmers School District of Collin County which was organized in 1876. The building burned in 1878, but was immediately rebuilt. In 1884 the school was moved to the James Howard farm to make the school more in the center of the Farmers School District and was renamed the Howard School. It closed in 1884.
As early as 1869 Miranda Bass conducted a private school in her home. Later when a school house was built about one and one-half miles from the Bass home it became the Bass public school. The small wood frame building with simple homemade desks was under the jurisdiction of the Farmers School District of Collin County which was organized in 1876. The building burned in 1878, but was immediately rebuilt. In 1884 the school was moved to the James Howard farm to make the school more in the center of the Farmers School District and was renamed the Howard School. It closed in 1884.
