Wilkins School
Wilkins School #72
half mile south of Parker Road at the bend in Maxwell Creek
Murphy, Texas
Rev. S. M. Wilkins became the pastor at the present-day Corinth Presbyterian Church in the Murphy/Parker area around 1860. He started a school. In newspaper articles it is referred to as Corinth Presbyterian/Wilkins School house, implying that it was one building. The map in Plano, Texas: The Early Years shows it as 2 buildings on opposite sides of Maxwell Creek.
Rev. Wilkins was listed as a professor of religion at the Corinth church or Wilkins school house in 1875. In 1880 the McKinney Advocate said that Wilkins community had good land and was thickly settled. The teacher was Mrs. M. C. G. Thurman. In 1898 the school had 38 students. A. S. Hood was the teacher.
The school had 44 Students in 1890; E. H. Rabun was the teacher in 1901 and 1902. The district had 2 black students in 1901, who were transferred to a colored school. Prof Jas. W. McDonald was the teacher in 1904; and J. L. Yarbrough was the teacher in 1905. In the spring of 1909, the school had 70 students -39 males and 31 females. In the fall, it had 81 students. There were 54 students in 1912. In 1914 the Wilkins, Stinson and Parker school Districts consolidated to form Parker #124. The old buildings were torn down and a new, larger 4-room building was erected in Parker.
half mile south of Parker Road at the bend in Maxwell Creek
Murphy, Texas
Rev. S. M. Wilkins became the pastor at the present-day Corinth Presbyterian Church in the Murphy/Parker area around 1860. He started a school. In newspaper articles it is referred to as Corinth Presbyterian/Wilkins School house, implying that it was one building. The map in Plano, Texas: The Early Years shows it as 2 buildings on opposite sides of Maxwell Creek.
Rev. Wilkins was listed as a professor of religion at the Corinth church or Wilkins school house in 1875. In 1880 the McKinney Advocate said that Wilkins community had good land and was thickly settled. The teacher was Mrs. M. C. G. Thurman. In 1898 the school had 38 students. A. S. Hood was the teacher.
The school had 44 Students in 1890; E. H. Rabun was the teacher in 1901 and 1902. The district had 2 black students in 1901, who were transferred to a colored school. Prof Jas. W. McDonald was the teacher in 1904; and J. L. Yarbrough was the teacher in 1905. In the spring of 1909, the school had 70 students -39 males and 31 females. In the fall, it had 81 students. There were 54 students in 1912. In 1914 the Wilkins, Stinson and Parker school Districts consolidated to form Parker #124. The old buildings were torn down and a new, larger 4-room building was erected in Parker.
