Place
Eanes School
The original one-room schoolhouse of the Eanes community, established in the 1870s on land donated by Robert Eanes. Generations of West Lake families learned to read in this building before it was retired in favor of the modern Eanes ISD campuses.
Photographs of Eanes School
The Eanes School was the educational anchor of the West Lake community from the 1870s until the late 1960s, when the district consolidated into the modern Eanes Independent School District. Children rode horses, mules, and (later) buses to attend; for decades it was the only public building in the hills west of the Colorado.
The original schoolhouse no longer stands, but the cemetery and several family homesteads associated with it survive nearby. The Eanes History Group is collecting photographs and oral histories from families connected to the school.
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Documents
Photograph of Students
Oral History Interview with Mary Ellen Mowinckle Johnson, April 28, 1975
Eanes Elementary Class Photograph
Eanes School Picnic
Notes from an Interview with Mike Molberg
Photograph of Della Edwards
Illustration of Eanes Frame School
Report about the City of West Lake Hills
Growing up in Westlake Hills (James Short)
Letter from Mary Mowinckle Johnson to Dorothy Depwe, February 12, 1976
Eanes: A History of the School and Community
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