Reinhardt Elementary School

Reinhardt began life as Ola, which had a post office from 1884 to 1886. When the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe built north from Dallas in 1886, the Handbook of Texas says the town took the name of the railroad's president, though the plaque credits a Dallas merchant. By the end of that year it had three churches, a hotel, a racetrack and a school. In 1890 two one-teacher schools served the town, one for eighty-two White pupils and one for thirty-five Black pupils. The Reinhardt post office closed in 1930.

What the plaque says

Reinhardt Elementary School Reinhardt Elementary School traces its history to the 1880s, when a small frame schoolhouse was built on the farm of John Chenault to serve children of early settlers in this vicinity. After the Santa Fe Railroad built a line through the area and erected a depot about 1885, a town evolved and was named Reinhardt for Dallas merchant Isadore Reinhardt. Soon the town boasted two stores, a cotton gin, and a bank, and by 1900 a new frame school building was constructed near the rail line. Two teachers taught students in all grades. About 1910 a second frame building was erected on the opposite side of the railroad tracks, and in 1921 it was replaced by a two-story red brick school building. After the Casa Linda neighborhood was developed in the 1930s a larger Reinhardt Elementary School was built at this site in 1941. Reinhardt became a part of the Dallas School System in 1945 when the town of Reinhardt was annexed to the city of Dallas. Enlarged over the years to serve an ever-increasing enrollment, Reinhardt Elementary School continues to play an important role in Dallas education. It is considered the "Mother School" of Casa View Elementary and several other schools in the area. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 5.6 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 — 5.8 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.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 7.0 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 7.2 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.

More markers nearby

• Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2896 — 1.4 mi
• White Rock Dam, Reservoir and Park — 2.4 mi
• Buckner Baptist Children's Home — 3.3 mi
• McCree Cemetery — 3.5 mi