Marker Inscription
In the 1840s, settlers held public meetings under a tree at this site. Beginning in the 1850s, several successive 2-story frame buildings stood here and housed Masonic Lodge, church, elections, and social activities. Scyene Meeting Place housed one of the first public school sessions in Dallas County. In her girlhood, outlaw Belle Starr was a pupil in that school. In 1872, Texas & Pacific Railroad bypassed Scyene and the town dwindled. Yet the Woodmen of the World and other groups continued to meet in the community building, and school was held here until 1927. Bicentennial project donated by Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
About this site
Scyene Meeting Place is a historical marker in Dallas, Dallas County, dedicated in 1976. It is one of 352 historical markers documented in Dallas County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 574 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7632, -96.6582 near Dallas. The nearest cataloged historic site is Scyene Road, Old (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Abraham Carver Cemetery, Albert Carver Cemetery, and Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5113006879. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
