Green Bay High School

Alumna June McCoy told KLTV in 2021 that her Green Bay class had 12 students, which was considered large then, and that the school gave her a foundation to work her way through school or work. The former high school building is now the Green Bay Community Center in Tucker. Wikipedia says the community had a school called Green Bay for its African American students and a separate school for white students by 1884, and that Westwood Independent School District serves the area today.

What the plaque says

Green Bay High School Green Bay High School traces its origin to October 11, 1889, when eleven black men of the community formed a board of trustees and organized a school for the area's black children. The first school facility was provided by Green Bay Methodist Church. New school buildings erected in the early 1900s also housed the Mt. Sinai Masonic Lodge. Many dedicated teachers served in the Green Bay School, and students from a large rural area attended the school from its creation until desegration of area school systems was achieved in 1966. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 11 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.

More markers nearby

• Green Bay A.M.E. Church — steps away
• Site of Old Magnolia — 1.3 mi
• Fort Houston Cemetery — 6.7 mi
• Fort Houston — 7.0 mi