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When
I lived there the Scott Hotel was still operating with the owners Kenneth
Scott and his mother, she was in her 90's at the time in 1961. The old hotel was
still the same as it was in the 1880's and the railroad conductors would stay
there until the train returned to change personnel. Toyah was the Roundhouse,
as they called it, because those conductors from Big
Spring, Texas would get off at Toyah and the conductors from El Paso would
take the train from Toyah to El Paso and on the return the Big Spring conductors
would take the train from Toyah to Big Spring.
I attended school there from my 7th to 12th grade and we had 4 people in our senior
class. We played 6 man football, Basketball, tennis and track for the Toyah
Buffaloes and our school colors were black and white. There were 8 classrooms
in the whole school for grades 1-12. Our classes had one teacher which had two
grade levels in it and they would teach one level and then the next.
I am a school teacher/coach and owe alot to the education that I received at
Toyah I.S.D. Somewhere around 1970 the Supreme Court of Texas ruled
in favor of Pecos I.S.D for taking over Toyah school. Toyah School Board
and citizens fought for 7 years to keep their school but lost in the court ruling.
Now that the school was no longer in Toyah, the life's blood of this once great
western town died because the youth was taken away to another town. I will find
some pictures and send them. - John A. Taylor
Saturday,
February 03, 2001
Subject: Toyah,
Texas
I
found the site of Toyah today and it was a little sad to see the state of the
places where I once worked, played and went to school.
The picture you
identified as a school was actually our community center and Mr. Thompson's
barber shop.
The old school that was two story was built
in 1912 but in the 60's it was our gym, because the second story floor was torn
out and the basketball court was put in. I went to school there from 1961-1967.
One time there were 7 saloons and an Air Force base located there. While
I was growing up The old hotel was in use by the railroad people because Toyah
was used as a roundhouse for the passenger trains in those days.
The
old town is about gone but my fond memories of this great town will never die.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting this site on the net. -
John A. Taylor Class of 1967 More
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