Education in Plantersville

The school lot was one corner of a planters' town, and the Handbook of Texas sketches the rest. Settlers mostly from Alabama and Arkansas arrived in the 1830s, and in 1843 Isaac Baker began the 2,850-acre plantation called the Cedars northeast of the settlement. The 1856 post office took the name Plantersville, suggested by Mrs. J. L. Greene to honor the planters. Baptists organized in 1861 with George W. Baines, great-grandfather of Lyndon Johnson, as first pastor, and dropped their Black members in 1870. The school's foundation sits on private land.

What the plaque says

Education in Plantersville In the original plat of Plantersville, a four-acre lot was set aside for a school, later built by the Plantersville Masonic Lodge as a shared space. Across the street on another corner lot was the female school where the town surveyor, James K. Markey, served as the first teacher. By 1865, the schools merged. The Masonic Lodge Building was used until 1912, when a modern brick school, named Plantersville High School, was built on the site. Students attended grades nine through eleven, with a grammar school located on the same campus. The senior class of 1942 was the last to graduate from the high school. In 1951, the school district became part of the Navasota ISD and the high school building was razed. (2020)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Navasota — 14 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 17 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.

More markers nearby

• Stoneham Methodist Church — 3.0 mi
• The Stoneham Cemetery — 4.0 mi
• Andrew Jackson Montgomery — 4.0 mi
• John Montgomery — 4.0 mi