Sunset Consolidated Rural School District

Munday, the district's eventual home, began in 1893 with a store. First called Maud for Maud Isbell, it took the name of postmaster R. P. Munday when the post office opened in 1894. In 1903 the merchants of West Munday moved their buildings a thousand yards east to join East Munday, and in 1906 the Wichita Valley arrived and the town incorporated. By 1940 it had 1,545 people and seventy businesses, among them a cottonseed-oil mill and a compress. Irrigation later made it a vegetable-processing center, and Texas A&M opened a vegetable research center there in 1971.

What the plaque says

The Gillespie School District No. 7 was formed in 1891; League District No. 12 organized in 1906. Prairie View District No. 24 was created in 1910 and Jungman District No. 26 in 1923. These four were among eleven Knox County School Districts whose representatives met in 1923 to discuss the recently proposed rural aid law, which would provide funds for the consolidation of two or more schools. The law was passed in 1929, and the Gillespie, League, Prairie View and Jungman Districts merged. A high school was erected near this site in 1930. More than 400 students attended the consolidated schools. Taking advantage of the combined resources of each district and additional federal aid, Sunset Consolidated School District No. 27 was merged in 1951 with the Munday Independent School District. (1999)

Where it stands

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