Center Point School

Center Point incorporated in August 1889 for school purposes only and elected its first school trustees in April 1890. In February 1913 voters chose full incorporation with a commission government, but a second election that October dissolved the municipality. Center Point stayed the area's trade center until the 1920s, when the paved highway skirted the edge of town. It kept a stable population and business community, with about 800 people in 1984 and again in 2000, along with vacationers, retirees and summer residents.

What the plaque says

Center Point School Prior to the settlement of the community of Zanzenburg and Center Point, school was taught in shacks and homes. From 1873-1875, B.F. Johnson taught classes in the first school held in various buildings in the area. From 1876-1884, the Center Point Academy served as the community's school. In 1884, Dr. J.C. Nowlin donated an acre of land for a school building and a plank building was erected. In 1910, San Antonio architect Alfred Giles designed and J. V. Oppert built a two-story limestone building. The school officially opened for classes in the fall of 1911. Students still receive an education in the original limestone building, which serves as an educational and social hub for Center Point. (2011)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Treue der Union Monument — 7.4 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Schreiner Mansion — 9.6 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Frontier Times Museum — 15 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 17 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.

More markers nearby

• Center Point Christian Church — steps away
• Center Point United Methodist Church — steps away
• Mosty Brothers Nursery — 0.3 mi
• Rising Star Lodge No. 429, A.F. & A.M. — 0.3 mi