Union School Celina
Union School Celina
North Texas Drive
Celina, Texas
The Union Community in northwest Collin County was started around 1860. Before the railroad came through, the community of Celina was about 5 miles southwest of Union, near where the Old Celina Cemetery is located today. When the St. Louis, San Francisco, & Texas railroad was built in 1902, the town of Celina moved north to the tracks on the west side of the community of Union.
The earliest burial in the Union Cemetery was in 1861. The lands for a church, school and cemetery were donated at the same time. The land for the first school house and the first church was donated by Quincy Case and his wife. The Celina Methodist church was organized in 1869 at the Union school house. Several denominations worshipped in the old Union school house for many years.
The Union School was included on a list of county schools in 1880. It stated that Union School district, situated in the northwest corner of the county, had fine farming lands, mostly prairie. The teacher was W. H. Winton, a young man in his second year of teaching in this district. This may be the same school as Jewell, of which Longacre was a teacher.
There are several references to Union School by students who attended it. In 1937 Demus Snodgrass (1867-1955) said all of his siblings went to the Old Union School. Early teachers were John English and E. S. Longacre.
After meeting in the school building for about 20 years, in 1883 English, Longacre, and Snodgrass, trustees of Celina Methodist Church, signed a deed for land for a new church building.
There was a Union School #28 north of Farmersville that opened about 1890.
North Texas Drive
Celina, Texas
The Union Community in northwest Collin County was started around 1860. Before the railroad came through, the community of Celina was about 5 miles southwest of Union, near where the Old Celina Cemetery is located today. When the St. Louis, San Francisco, & Texas railroad was built in 1902, the town of Celina moved north to the tracks on the west side of the community of Union.
The earliest burial in the Union Cemetery was in 1861. The lands for a church, school and cemetery were donated at the same time. The land for the first school house and the first church was donated by Quincy Case and his wife. The Celina Methodist church was organized in 1869 at the Union school house. Several denominations worshipped in the old Union school house for many years.
The Union School was included on a list of county schools in 1880. It stated that Union School district, situated in the northwest corner of the county, had fine farming lands, mostly prairie. The teacher was W. H. Winton, a young man in his second year of teaching in this district. This may be the same school as Jewell, of which Longacre was a teacher.
There are several references to Union School by students who attended it. In 1937 Demus Snodgrass (1867-1955) said all of his siblings went to the Old Union School. Early teachers were John English and E. S. Longacre.
After meeting in the school building for about 20 years, in 1883 English, Longacre, and Snodgrass, trustees of Celina Methodist Church, signed a deed for land for a new church building.
There was a Union School #28 north of Farmersville that opened about 1890.
