Tokio School

The community the school served was founded around 1908 and may have been named by Mrs. H. L. Ware for the capital of Japan. She became postmistress when a post office opened in 1912. Tokio stayed small: fifteen people in 1929, about three businesses and 125 residents in the 1940s, and an estimated sixty from the 1950s through 1990, in farm country with oil and gas fields nearby. It kept its post office and four businesses into the early 1990s, but by 2000 its population had fallen to twenty-four.

What the plaque says

Tokio School Early classes in the Tokio area were held in the ranch house of the J Cross Ranch near the turn of the century. In 1911, a school building was constructed near the center of town (about 300 feet N), and classes were relocated. Larger school buildings later were erected, once due to fire and twice due to changing space needs. The school facilities continued to serve the community's educational as well as religious and civic needs until 1941 when Tokio School was consolidated with the Brownfield Independent School District. (1991)

Where it stands

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