Early Ingleside Schools

The plaque names Henry Nold's school; the Handbook of Texas recovers a little of what it taught. Nold and his wife, Elizabeth, bought eighty-nine acres, and the deed stated his intention to build a two-story school. A report card for S. A. Menefee, son of Jackson County planter John Sutherland Menefee, runs from English and Latin grammar to political economy, plane trigonometry and logic. Pupils came mostly from South Texas ranch families able to pay for boarding, and the Turner brothers' letters mention students at "Nold Academy." The last known date of the school's operation is October 2, 1863.

What the plaque says

Early Ingleside Schools Early education in Ingleside began in the 1850s when settlers John P. and Susan Hatch Borden established Bay Seminary in 1854. The Bordens' school was closed by 1860. Henry Nold bought land from the Bordens and opened Ingleside College in 1857. Nold expanded the curriculum and built more frame structures for at least 30 boarding students. During the Civil War the college buildings were torn down. A school in nearby Allendale was built about 1872 and was active until 1910. The Ingleside public school system began about 1900. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Port Aransas — 9.2 mi
  The fishing town at the north end of Mustang Island, reached by a free state ferry that crosses the ship channel day and night, with a university marine lab begun in a one-room shack.
• USS Lexington Museum on the Bay — 10 mi
  An Essex-class carrier of 1943 moored off North Beach, the Blue Ghost that Tokyo Rose kept reporting sunk, and the Navy's training carrier for nearly three decades after.
• Texas State Aquarium — 11 mi
  A nonprofit aquarium on the tip of Corpus Christi Beach built around the Gulf and the Caribbean, with the largest coastal wildlife rescue center in Texas behind the exhibits.
• Art Museum of South Texas — 11 mi
  Philip Johnson's 1972 museum on the Corpus Christi bayfront, joined in 2006 by Ricardo Legorreta's Miller Wing, holding more than 2,000 works mostly from Texas and the Americas.

More markers nearby

• Ingleside — steps away
• Late Pleistocene Ingleside Fauna — 2.7 mi
• First United Methodist Church of Aransas Pass — 6.1 mi
• Terminal Railroad — 6.4 mi