Long Neck School
Long Neck School #14
FM 75 and CR 461
Princeton, Texas
The Long Neck School District #14 is not included on a list of Collin County schools in 1880. It would become part of the Princeton School District. The community of Princeton was not created until the East Line Railroad went through the area running from McKinney to Greenville in 1900.
In the 1890’s the Long Neck School was started approximately one mile north of present-day Princeton at the intersection of F M 75 & C R 461 (old S. H. 24) with J. H. Sneed as the teacher. Miss Ruth Sneed (later Mrs. R. A. Kluttz) was an early teacher. In 1890 Long Neck School had 59 pupils and 67 in 1892. John Doyle was the teacher in 1895. In 1897-98 Prof. G. H. Chance was in charge of Long Neck. There were 43 Students in 1898.
In 1898 a two-story wood frame school building was built near the entrance of the Princeton IOOF cemetery at the intersection of Yorkshire St. & Jefferson Ave. The Woodmen of the World Lodge Hall was located on the second floor.
Prof. D. D. Kemper was the principal at Long Neck in 1900. In 1901 - Legislative (?) Candidates met at the school house:
“One of the most disgraceful affairs that ever occurred in community was the public speaking by the three democratic candidates for local representative at Long Neck school house Monday night. Their vocabulary of filthy language is inexhaustible, and they certainly indulged in it to their hearts contend, and to the utter disgust of even the hardest men present….”
By 1901 Long Neck had 2 schools with Miss Eliza Snow as the teacher at one school and Miss Effie Reed as the teacher at the other school. In 1905 T. J. Taylor was the teacher. The Long Neck school was doing good work under the management of Prof. L. C. Counts, principal and Miss Josie Parker, assistant,
John T. Dugger and J. C. Turner were elected Trustees for Long Neck School in 1902. In 1909 Long Neck School organized a Literary Society and elected officers: Mae Gantt, President, Aubrey Godwin, Vice President; Mancil Craig, secretary; Alta Hill assistant secretary.
Later the Long Neck School District consolidated with the Princeton School District #152. By 1912 the Long Neck School District #14 is not included on the list of Collin County Schools.
FM 75 and CR 461
Princeton, Texas
The Long Neck School District #14 is not included on a list of Collin County schools in 1880. It would become part of the Princeton School District. The community of Princeton was not created until the East Line Railroad went through the area running from McKinney to Greenville in 1900.
In the 1890’s the Long Neck School was started approximately one mile north of present-day Princeton at the intersection of F M 75 & C R 461 (old S. H. 24) with J. H. Sneed as the teacher. Miss Ruth Sneed (later Mrs. R. A. Kluttz) was an early teacher. In 1890 Long Neck School had 59 pupils and 67 in 1892. John Doyle was the teacher in 1895. In 1897-98 Prof. G. H. Chance was in charge of Long Neck. There were 43 Students in 1898.
In 1898 a two-story wood frame school building was built near the entrance of the Princeton IOOF cemetery at the intersection of Yorkshire St. & Jefferson Ave. The Woodmen of the World Lodge Hall was located on the second floor.
Prof. D. D. Kemper was the principal at Long Neck in 1900. In 1901 - Legislative (?) Candidates met at the school house:
“One of the most disgraceful affairs that ever occurred in community was the public speaking by the three democratic candidates for local representative at Long Neck school house Monday night. Their vocabulary of filthy language is inexhaustible, and they certainly indulged in it to their hearts contend, and to the utter disgust of even the hardest men present….”
By 1901 Long Neck had 2 schools with Miss Eliza Snow as the teacher at one school and Miss Effie Reed as the teacher at the other school. In 1905 T. J. Taylor was the teacher. The Long Neck school was doing good work under the management of Prof. L. C. Counts, principal and Miss Josie Parker, assistant,
John T. Dugger and J. C. Turner were elected Trustees for Long Neck School in 1902. In 1909 Long Neck School organized a Literary Society and elected officers: Mae Gantt, President, Aubrey Godwin, Vice President; Mancil Craig, secretary; Alta Hill assistant secretary.
Later the Long Neck School District consolidated with the Princeton School District #152. By 1912 the Long Neck School District #14 is not included on the list of Collin County Schools.
