Knickerbocker Schools

Education for children in southwestern Tom Green County was available at Knickerbocker Schools as early as 1877. The Baze Subscription School, built by A. P. Baze (1833-1880) on his farm two miles north of Knickerbocker, operated from 1877 to 1899.The one-room schoolhouse had adobe walls, a shingled roof, and a pine floor. Children came on horseback to attend a six-month school term. As the population grew, the county built a frame schoolhouse about 1889 to replace the Baze School. In 1926 a red brick school building with three classrooms, an auditorium, and a central hall replaced the 1889 frame structure. In 1895, at the insistence of Dr. Boyd Cornick (1856-1933), a county school was built primarily for children of Mexican descent. This school was substantially remodeled in the 1930s. The two schools operated separately until 1948 when they were combined. Following the consolidation of area rural schools in 1960, children from the Knickerbocker area traveled by bus to school in Christoval. The red brick Knickerbocker school building became a post office and community center in 1989. (1992)

Knickerbocker Schools is a historical marker in Knickerbocker, Tom Green County, dedicated in 1991. It is one of 43 historical markers documented in Tom Green County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 130 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.2727, -100.6238 near Knickerbocker. The nearest cataloged historic site is Knickerbocker (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Knickerbocker Community Cemetery, Knickerbocker Catholic Community Cemetery, and Baze Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5451002964. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.