First Public School in Lampasas

Lampasas children were taught long before this building went up. Several residents kept schools before 1869, when money raised by county subscription paid for a two-story rock schoolhouse on Sulphur Creek. W. W. Chandler began a public school in 1892, and a building for it followed a couple of years later. School programs were the town's entertainment for a time, after an early theater built in the 1870s burned in the mid-1880s. By the 1980s two school districts, Lampasas and Lometa, ran six schools in the county.

What the plaque says

First Public School in Lampasas Erected 1895 to replace rented sites and aid in raising standards. In constant use. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 1.0 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 18 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.
• Inks Lake State Park — 25 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 27 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.

More markers nearby

• Site of Abney Plunge — steps away
• Pierian Club — steps away
• Hanna Springs — 0.2 mi
• First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi