Bartlett Grammar School

While the new school went up, the old frame building was moved to the southwest corner of the block so classes could continue. A local firm, Flick and Son, won the contract, and the building cost about $21,000. It had ten rooms, three offices and an auditorium, and it opened on September 13, 1909, with 250 students. All grades met here until 1917, elementary grades until 1966, and primary grades after that. Black children were taught elsewhere; a Williamson County marker says the district moved a frame schoolhouse to Arnold Drive for them.

What the plaque says

Bartlett Grammar School By the early 1900s Bartlett had become the railroad center of a prosperous cotton growing region. In 1903 the Bartlett Independent School District was created. By 1906-07 the 5-room schoolhouse here proved inadequate to house the district's expanding student enrollment. Bartlett enlarged the district's tax base and passed a bond election, and in 1908-09 a new multi-wing brick building, designed by noted Austin architect A.O. Watson, was built here. When a new high school was erected in 1917, the facility at this site became an elementary/grammar school. The school closed in 1988. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williamson County Courthouse — 18 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 20 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 21 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• The Round Rock — 25 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Bartlett — steps away
• City of Bartlett — steps away
• First United Methodist Church of Bartlett — 0.3 mi
• Site of Booker T. Washington School — 0.4 mi