Six Mile School

Schools like Six Mile were governed for much of their life by a county board. Texas created the office of county school trustee in 1911: one trustee from each of the four commissioners' precincts and a chairman elected countywide, all serving two-year terms. The trustees divided the county into school districts, consolidated old districts and created new ones, heard appeals from the county superintendent and split the common school fund among districts by their numbers of school-age children. In 1978 the legislature stopped state funding for the office, and most counties let it lapse.

What the plaque says

Six Mile School Six Mile community was established in the 1880s. Most residents farmed, ranched or worked in granite quarries. The land around this site was donated to Llano County by William A. and Jane E. Stevens for a school and cemetery in 1883. The first school, called Union School, was erected in 1884. In 1898 it was renamed Six Mile School. Like many rural schools, it was in operation only a few months at a time so that students could assist their families with farm labor. After the local Methodist church closed in the early 1900s the schoolhouse and land around it became the site of church services and revivals for the community. The schoolhouse was renovated in 1930. Classes were held at Six Mile School until 1945. (1999)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Llano County Courthouse Square — 8.3 mi
  The 1893 Romanesque courthouse on Llano's square, built after a fire at the height of a boom that was meant to make the granite town an iron city.
• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area — 12 mi
  A dome of pink granite north of Fredericksburg that rises some 385 feet above Sandy Creek, creaks as it cools at night, and has drawn people for thousands of years.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 24 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Six Mile Cemetery — 0.2 mi
• Oxford Cemetery — 6.0 mi
• St. James Lutheran Church — 8.0 mi
• O'Henry School Building — 8.0 mi