Bois d'Arc School McKinney
Bois d’Arc School
Near 3622 Bois d’Arc Road
McKinney, Texas
Located four or five miles northwest of McKinney, the school housed grades 1-6 and was about 25 feet by 30 or 35 feet. Twenty-five students attended the one-room school which had only one teacher and few resources. It had a coal house with coal and dry corncobs to light a fire in the pot-bellied stove during the cold winter. In the earliest years there was a well with a long handle pump. Later, the school put a water tank inside the school near the ceiling, and the teacher would choose one student each day to pump the water into the tank for the next school day. There was no electricity, but kerosene flares hung on the wall to lite the blackboard on the north wall. The wooden floors were oiled once a week to keep down the dust. Mrs. Davis was one of the teachers before the school closed in the late 1940s.
There was another Bois d’Arc School located near Nevada.
Near 3622 Bois d’Arc Road
McKinney, Texas
Located four or five miles northwest of McKinney, the school housed grades 1-6 and was about 25 feet by 30 or 35 feet. Twenty-five students attended the one-room school which had only one teacher and few resources. It had a coal house with coal and dry corncobs to light a fire in the pot-bellied stove during the cold winter. In the earliest years there was a well with a long handle pump. Later, the school put a water tank inside the school near the ceiling, and the teacher would choose one student each day to pump the water into the tank for the next school day. There was no electricity, but kerosene flares hung on the wall to lite the blackboard on the north wall. The wooden floors were oiled once a week to keep down the dust. Mrs. Davis was one of the teachers before the school closed in the late 1940s.
There was another Bois d’Arc School located near Nevada.
