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What's left of
Sligo - Sligo Schoolhouse
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, October 2006 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Pat and Kate McHugh,
brother and sister ranchers named the settlement after Sligo County
in Ireland.
1903: Sligo was granted a post office, with Kate McHugh as postmistress.
The post office operated from the McHugh’s dugout.
1920: The post office was discontinued and Plains
became the local post office.
1923: the state legislature established the Sligo Independent School
District which became the Sligo Consolidated Independent School District
in 1932.
After two schools burned - students were sent to Denver City. The
remains of a school building at Sligo was all that was left by 1980.
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Subject:
Sligo Schoolhouse, Cemetery & Church
[The building in your photo] is the two room schoolhouse with a
kitchen and two restrooms. Yoakum county sold the building and land
to a farmer some time in the 1990's.
The Cemetery is two miles south and two miles east on the south
side of the road. The church is on the north side before you get
to the Cemetery . Some of the graves have been moved, but there
are three graves there now. - Dale Thompson, April 15, 2013
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Yoakum
County Texas 1907 Postal Map showing Sligo
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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