Titus County, Texas History - Mt. Pleasant Schools

Early Mount Pleasant High School, Mt. Pleasant, TX - (Photo SC-0001)

This is a photo of an early Mt. Pleasant High School. It was located on North Jefferson Street on the block between West Sixth and West Seventh Streets at the northern edge of the central Mount Pleasant business district. A shopping center now sits on the property.

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1907 Post Card showing the Mt. Pleasant School - (Photo SC-0003)

One side of this 1907 post card features a photo of the Mount Pleasant school shown in photo SC-0001. "Mt. Pleasant School House" is hand-written above the photo.

The card is postmarked December 31, 1907 and was mailed with a 1 cent stamp.

Mt. Pleasant High School's First Graduating Class - (Photo SC-0012)

This is a photo of the first graduating class of Mt. Pleasant High School in 1906.

Front Row: Ruth Lilienstern Old, Prof. L.C. Libby, Zenobia Slaughter Lide

Top Row: Ethel DePrato, Addie Stephenson, Abbie Stephenson, Emma Suggs

1910 Mt. Pleasant School Report Card - (Photo SC-0013/SC-0014)

This is Tommy Justiss' 1910 report card from the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools. The card was badly yellowed and torn, but we decided to show it anyway due to its age. School officials listed his surname as "Justice", but his father signed the card each period as "J.O. Justiss", the correct spelling!

1973 Aerial view of the Mount Pleasant High School campus - (Photo AP-0024)

This view of the Mt. Pleasant High School campus was taken from the east looking west. North Edwards Street (Texas FM-1734) is visible in the left side of the photo. A small section of U.S. Highway 271 North Bypass is visible in the left corner of the photo.

There has been considerable development in the area since this photo was taken. Calvary Baptist Church was built adjacent to the High School property, then Region VIII Education Service Center, and Boggs service station and market was constructed on the northeast corner of FM-1734 and U.S. 271 (out of the frame of this photo).

1973 Aerial view of the P.E. Wallace Junior High School campus - (Photo AP-0036)

This view of the P.E. Wallace Junior High School campus was taken from the north looking south. Choctaw street runs at an angle from the left to the right of the photo, and Dunn Street runs vertically in front of the school.

Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas

December 4, 1941

Increase is Shown In Attendance For Students of School

More Interest is Being Shown and Enrollment Grows

According to Superintendent P.E. Wallace, the enrollment for the Mt. Pleasant, schools for the three months of this year show an increase oven last year of 35 pupils. The number enrolled at the beginning of December was 1,570, and for the same period last year there were 1,535. There are nine more than last year who began, work at the beginning of the school term and remained for three months. Days attending for November total 2,423, and for last year the number was 2,395, a gain of 28.

The average membership for this November was 1,504, and for last year was 1,448, an increase of 64.

Absentees recorded for 1941 amounted to 1,495, while for last year they totaled 1,513, a decrease of 18.

The average daily attendance for 1941 so far amounted to 1,413, while last year the total was 1,395, a gain of 18.

These records show that while there is an increase in the number of students, there is also more interest being shown by pupils.

Mt. Pleasant High School's 1913 Commencement Invitation - (Photo SC-0008/SC-0009)

These are photos of an invitation to the Mt. Pleasant High School's 1913 Commencement Exercises held on May 2, 1913 at the High School auditorium. There were only five graduates: Cheney Ellis, Ada Vaughn, Robert Delafield, Blanche Mainard, and Sam Williams.