Pleasant Ridge School
Pleasant Ridge School #123
Possum Trot, Texas
Crossroads
south east corner of Rock Hill Road and Coit Road
Prosper, Texas
A one-room wood frame building with an entry porch at the front and windows along the back wall. The school was established circa 1854 and had a teacher’s desk on the west wall and faced north and was 30 feet wide by 32 feet long. The school housed the first through seventh grades and usually only had one teacher, but another might be hired if enrollment increased. There was a dug-out cave on the property where the boys ate lunch every day and if you were very good you got the special privilege of going to the coal storage bin to get a bucket of coal for the potbellied stove. The school was consolidated into the Prosper School District in 1939. The building was moved to the Prosper School Campus after 1946 and became the home making building. It was later used by the Prosper fire department as a meeting place and then became the Prosper police station.
Research found a school called Pleasant Valley located about one-half mile north of the Rock Hill Store (corner of today’s Rock Hill Road and Preston Road). The First Presbyterian Church of Prosper was organized July 7, 1878 and assembled at the Pleasant Valley schoolhouse. It seems both the Pleasant Valley and Pleasant Ridge schools existed simultaneously, and that Pleasant Valley School was less than one mile from Rock Hill School located near the intersection of Rock Hill Road and Preston Road.
Known Teachers were Lizah Borum, Mrs. Elva Thompson Crank, Miss Lonnie Mae Height, Miss Betsy Malone, Miss Ruby Morris, Mr. Waldo Pruitt, Miss Leona Watson, and Mrs. Irene Glass Wells.
This school consolidated with Prosper in 1939. The building was moved to the Prosper campus in 1946 to become the Homemaking department.
Possum Trot, Texas
Crossroads
south east corner of Rock Hill Road and Coit Road
Prosper, Texas
A one-room wood frame building with an entry porch at the front and windows along the back wall. The school was established circa 1854 and had a teacher’s desk on the west wall and faced north and was 30 feet wide by 32 feet long. The school housed the first through seventh grades and usually only had one teacher, but another might be hired if enrollment increased. There was a dug-out cave on the property where the boys ate lunch every day and if you were very good you got the special privilege of going to the coal storage bin to get a bucket of coal for the potbellied stove. The school was consolidated into the Prosper School District in 1939. The building was moved to the Prosper School Campus after 1946 and became the home making building. It was later used by the Prosper fire department as a meeting place and then became the Prosper police station.
Research found a school called Pleasant Valley located about one-half mile north of the Rock Hill Store (corner of today’s Rock Hill Road and Preston Road). The First Presbyterian Church of Prosper was organized July 7, 1878 and assembled at the Pleasant Valley schoolhouse. It seems both the Pleasant Valley and Pleasant Ridge schools existed simultaneously, and that Pleasant Valley School was less than one mile from Rock Hill School located near the intersection of Rock Hill Road and Preston Road.
Known Teachers were Lizah Borum, Mrs. Elva Thompson Crank, Miss Lonnie Mae Height, Miss Betsy Malone, Miss Ruby Morris, Mr. Waldo Pruitt, Miss Leona Watson, and Mrs. Irene Glass Wells.
This school consolidated with Prosper in 1939. The building was moved to the Prosper campus in 1946 to become the Homemaking department.
