Pleasant Grove School & Cemetery

The Handbook of Texas follows the Pleasant Grove school as it grew. In 1896 the four-teacher school had 177 White students. A two-story school was built in 1904, and in 1905 it reported more than 200 White students and four teachers. For a time beginning in 1907 the community also had a college. A one-story school replaced the 1904 building in 1926, on the same site. The entry dates the community to 1872, when Henry Robinson built a blacksmith shop, and says a combined church and school went up in 1874.

What the plaque says

Pleasant Grove School & Cemetery Land for a community school and cemetery was donated by Henry and Mary Robinson in the 1870s. A one-room log schoolhouse was replaced by several larger buildings as population in the area grew. Professor D. Speer, a teacher at the school, named the community and the school Pleasant Grove in the 1880s. The school was consolidated in 1956 with the Winnsboro School District. Located behind the schoolhouse, the cemetery dates to 1879 with the oldest recorded burial, that of Henry A. Brummett. Still active, the site is maintained by a cemetery association. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Governor Hogg Shrine — 9.9 mi
  Quitman's 27-acre city park, once a state historical park, where two houses tied to James Stephen Hogg's marriage stand beside an arboretum, a nature walk and the grounds of the Old Settlers Reunion.
• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 19 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.

More markers nearby

• Black Oak Baptist Church — 3.9 mi
• Rock Hill Baptist Church — 4.6 mi
• Harmony Methodist Church and Cemetery — 6.1 mi
• Captain Henry Stout — 9.0 mi