Union Hill School

Union Hill's students ended up in the Kopperl district, in a town that exists because of a railroad director. The Handbook of Texas says Kopperl was founded in 1881 on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and named for Moritz Kopperl, a Galveston banker and Santa Fe director. After the Lake Whitney dam was built, a levee went up around the town in 1953 to protect it from flooding. The songwriter Steven Fromholz made Kopperl the subject of a song in his Texas Trilogy.

What the plaque says

Union Hill School Started before 1879, the Union Hill School was one of several rural schools that served the early settlers of Bosque County. A two-room 1888 schoolhouse, located across the road, was used until 1914, when a two-story building was constructed at this site. A nearby stable housed the student's horses during the school day. Enlarged by the 1926 merger with the Auburn Hill District, Union Hill became part of the Kopperl District in 1939. Former students, which include many area business, professional, and agricultural leaders, still meet for a biennial school reunion. (1981)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cleburne State Park — 12 mi
  A 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps park on the old Chisholm Trail crossing country, with a spring-fed lake, a hand-carved three-tiered spillway and a CCC bridge in Johnson County.
• Meridian State Park — 15 mi
  A 505-acre park in Bosque County where World War I veterans of a Civilian Conservation Corps company dammed Bee Creek in 1933-34 for a 72-acre lake and cut stone buildings around it.
• Dinosaur Valley State Park — 19 mi
  Theropod and sauropod trackways of about 113 million years ago in the bed of the Paluxy River, a National Natural Landmark where R. T. Bird found the first distinct sauropod tracks in 1937.
• Bosque Museum — 21 mi
  A Clifton museum holding what it calls the largest repository of Norwegian artifacts in the South and Southwest, with Bosque County finds some 10,000 years old and a log cabin built by the Olson family.

More markers nearby

• Boyhood Home of John A. Lomax — 11 mi
• Captain J. J. Cureton, C.S.A. — 11 mi
• James Buckner "Buck" Barry, C.S.A. — 11 mi
• Fort Graham — 11 mi