​African American Education
​in Gonzales

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Marker No: 91

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.509682,-97.442108

Location: School &  Kline Streets, Gonzales

Marker Text: ​Education for American Negro citizens of Gonzales began in the 1870s at the home of Myrtle Moses Mathis, more formalized instruction took place in the 1890s when the school occupied a 2-story community building. A brick schoolhouse was erected about 1914 on land donated by W.M. Fly and Josephine K. Peck. It was named George Edwards High School in 1922 and served 300 students and 8 teachers by 1940, Edwards High School was closed in 1964 as schools were desegregated in compliance with the federal civil rights act. The school was sold in the 1970s. (1997)