Liberty-Eylau Independent School District

Liberty-Eylau Independent School District (the latter half of the name is pronounced "EYE-low") is a public school district in southeastern Bowie County, Texas (USA).

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

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The first Liberty School was organized about 1886 by P.F. McCormick and others. There were 19 scholars enrolled with Parson Alford employed as the first teacher. The building was a crude frame building and the equipment was not plentiful. A spring about two hundred yards east of the school house supplied the drinking water.

In 1902 the school house was moved to the Shreveport Highway, near Mrs. Hart’s place. The original location was a part of the property where the Creosoting Plant is now located. As the community became more thickly settled, another room was added and the community could boast of a two-teacher school. The school remained on the Shreveport Highway until 1915. The teachers who taught in those early buildings were Parson Alford, Whistling Jones, Lee Tidwell, W.R. Frederick, Chester White, William Kennedy, S.B. Sprandlin, S.S. Lattimore, Will Rochelle, Miss Donnie Bussie, Miss Naomi Morse, and Mrs. L.R. Nash.

The Carmichael Hill School was a part of Liberty District and was organized in 1904. The land was purchased from M.D. Tilson and a one-room frame building was erected. The school house was destroyed by fire five years later and another was erected. It was necessary to raise funds for both the building and grounds. T.E. Elliott, A.J. Braswell, Pete Walraven, and J.B. Selman were appointed as a building committee. A house costing approximately $800 was built and remained in use until 1915. The following teachers taught in the school: Miss Hazel Moss, Miss Carman Morse, Miss Birdie Blow, Miss Inez Bentley, and Miss Donnie Bussie.

Liberty School number two or the Bearden School, was organized about 1904. It was located on the Jew Farm Lane about one-half mile west of the Buchanan Road. Mr. Bearden gave the land and a building was erected in the summer of 1904. This school consolidated with Liberty School number one in 1915. Tom Bob Nelson, William Kennedy, Miss Arra Kennedy, and Chester White were some of the teachers. The trustees were: R.C. Mauldin, J.N. Sherrer, Dan Lucower, and Mr. Walraven.

In 1915, when Carmichael Hill, Liberty and the Bearden School voted to consolidate, bonds for $10,000 were voted and a brick building with six rooms and a small auditorium were built. The pupils were transported to the new school by wagons.

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