Lee School
Lee School
FM 544 E at 1st Street
Wylie, Texas
The community of Wylie was not established until the railroad came through in 1886. Several small communities existed in the area before that time. Lee School was possibly the oldest school built in this area. Land was given by William Marshall Lee, who could neither read nor write, and the school began its teaching in the 1850s. The location in old references has the school placed west of Eureka toward Nickelville just around the bend on Highway 544 East.
In the 1850’s William Marshall Lee built and operated a ferry across the East Fork of the Trinity River at Eureka Lake. The first school house was built during this same period. It was built of logs and had no floors. The log building burned and was replaced with a lumber building with a floor. Lee school was closed in 1891. The Lee children and others were educated at Lee School. Teachers included Miss Ludy Gotcher, Miss Ollie Ingram, Dave Kemper, and William Burns.
Several denominations of Wylie churches had their start at the Lee’s School House including a Methodist Church, the Lone Elm Primitive Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Wylie.
In the early 1890s Lee’s School House was moved one and a half miles east and its name was changed to Kreymer School. The wooden building was torn down and rebuilt.
Kreymer School was on land given by Dr. G. C. Kreymer. Traveling to Stone Road, it was a branch not quite to the present Kreymer Lane.
FM 544 E at 1st Street
Wylie, Texas
The community of Wylie was not established until the railroad came through in 1886. Several small communities existed in the area before that time. Lee School was possibly the oldest school built in this area. Land was given by William Marshall Lee, who could neither read nor write, and the school began its teaching in the 1850s. The location in old references has the school placed west of Eureka toward Nickelville just around the bend on Highway 544 East.
In the 1850’s William Marshall Lee built and operated a ferry across the East Fork of the Trinity River at Eureka Lake. The first school house was built during this same period. It was built of logs and had no floors. The log building burned and was replaced with a lumber building with a floor. Lee school was closed in 1891. The Lee children and others were educated at Lee School. Teachers included Miss Ludy Gotcher, Miss Ollie Ingram, Dave Kemper, and William Burns.
Several denominations of Wylie churches had their start at the Lee’s School House including a Methodist Church, the Lone Elm Primitive Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Wylie.
In the early 1890s Lee’s School House was moved one and a half miles east and its name was changed to Kreymer School. The wooden building was torn down and rebuilt.
Kreymer School was on land given by Dr. G. C. Kreymer. Traveling to Stone Road, it was a branch not quite to the present Kreymer Lane.
