​Site of the
Behrns West Texas Normal
​and Business College

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Marker No: 4846

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.977913,-98.706627

Location: ​Route 16, Cherokee.

Marker Text: ​Opened 1895 by noted educator Francis Marion Behrns. A 3-story native blue marble main hall and frame dormitory were built by interested local citizens.
      Courses included mathematics, natural sciences, Latin, oratory, commercial subjects, literature, psychology, music and painting. Character building was stressed.
          Its graduates led in teaching and other professions. 
        After the Behrns School closed in 1903, buildings were used by Cherokee Junior College; after 1921 by public schools. In 1945 fire destroyed old main hall. (1966)