East Texas Normal College, Original Site of
Founded 1889 by W. L. Mayo (1861 - 1917), a teacher educated in Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana, who came to Pecan Gap, Texas in 1886. He was a native of Kentucky. He attracted a strong faculty to college on this site. A young teacher he soon married was a capable business manager. A high board fence enclosed campus here. The one building (T-shaped, 2-story, typical of its era, with porches upstairs and down), housed a dynamic school until razed by fire in 1894. Mayo was given aid to rebuild in Commerce; school survives as East Texas State University. RTHL - 1967
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
33.3697° N, 95.6878° W
Where to Find It
SE 1st St.
Nearby Markers
- 0.3 mi N First National Bank Cooper
- 0.3 mi N Texas Livery Stable Cooper
- 0.5 mi NW Cooper Rail Depot Cooper
- 0.6 mi E Yates and Methodist Protestant Cemeteries Cooper
- 1.1 mi E Thomas A. Lambeth Cooper
- 1.1 mi E Turbeville, Sam B. Cooper