Lovejoy School

Lovejoy School was a legal district before it was a building. The consolidated Common School District No. 32 was established on July 2, 1917, covering 10.39 square miles, according to a district history. Trustees bought about four acres from the Fitzhugh family. The board named the school for Mrs. J. L. Lovejoy of McKinney because she showed an interest in it and donated books to its library. Lucas's school district joined in 1963. For many years Lovejoy had only an elementary school, and students east of Allen went to Allen for high school.

What the plaque says

Lovejoy School Lovejoy School was created in 1917 by the consolidation of Forest Grove and Lick Springs schools. It was named for Mrs. J.L. Lovejoy (d. 1939), a local clubwoman who promoted many educational causes for the area. Grades 1 through 9 were taught here in the "Little Red Schoolhouse," which was built in 1917 and contained 4 classrooms. Lovejoy School experienced an influx of new students into its rural district in the 1960s, and later expanded its facilities to accommodate the increased enrollment. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 2.2 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 17 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Fair Park — 25 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 26 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Forest Grove Christian Church — 0.6 mi
• John Myers McKinney — 2.1 mi
• Allen Water Station — 3.2 mi
• Allen — 3.2 mi