Angus Schoolhouse

Angus took its name from a railroad man. A Navarro County biography of Alexander Beaton says Captain Alexander A. Angus was the Houston and Texas Central's terminal agent at Corsicana in 1871 and that the community was named for him. The Handbook of Texas adds that the settlement had the first hay press in that part of Texas, a church in 1872 and a school in 1874, and was known for cattle, corn and wheat. A nearby oil pool, the Angus field, was found before 1915 and folded into the Corsicana field in 1953.

What the plaque says

Angus Schoolhouse The community of Angus began soon after rail lines were completed to this area in 1871. Three years later a public school was started under the direction of Lila Blackburn. The first schoolhouse was a two-room frame building that was moved several times before it was located here. In 1921 it was replaced by the present brick structure which provided space for several grades in each room. The school merged with the Corsicana district (4 mi. N) in 1941 and the schoolhouse later served as a community center. (1981)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroleum Industry Park — 5.9 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.
• Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery — 15 mi
  The Freestone County grave of the Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who recorded for Paramount in Chicago from 1926 and died there in December 1929.

More markers nearby

• Air Activities of Texas, Corsicana Field — 2.7 mi
• Hopewell Baptist Church — 3.3 mi
• Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery — 3.8 mi
• Hopewell Cemetery — 4.8 mi