​Eanes School and Chapel

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Marker No: 6469

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.284710, -97.815704

Location: (FM 2244) Bee Caves Road to Camp Craft Road, in front of Eanes School and Chapel, Westlake Hills

Marker Text: ​A log cabin built on property of the Robert Eanes (1805-95) in 8172 was the first Eanes School. In 1874 the school was moved to a one-room frame structure on this adjacent 2-acre tract given by William and Sophia Teague. Itinerant ministers conducted worship services in the schoolhouse, and a community, cemetery was located nearby. Eanes Chapel, organized in 1923 by university Presbyterian church in Austin. Erected a stone building in 1928. It was purchased in 1956 for classrooms. The Eanes Independent School district, created in 1958, is now (1975) a modern educational complex with over 1,800 students. (1975)