ANGLETON SCHOOLS HISTORY CENTER

For more than 100 years, Angleton schools have been an integral part of the lives of thousands of former students and employees. Yet little history of the district was compiled and accessible. The creation of the Angleton School History Center is a start in preserving the rich history of the school district and the students and staff members who have made it what it is today.

Purposes

  • Preserve and display items that tell the history of Angleton schools
  • Serve as an information center for the district
  • Provide a way to record and preserve the stories of alumni and former teachers
  • Educate faculty and students on the extensive history of the district

Items Being Collected

  • Photos of students, staff, events, buildings. Please identify with names and dates.
  • Historical material from all Angleton elementary schools, junior high and high school from all decades, including Marshall School and early districts that consolidated with AISD.
  • Personal memoirs from alumni and former employees that include mention of Angleton school days.
  • Articles from newspapers
  • Present day information on alumni
  • DVDs, CDs of events

Files are organized by year from 1897 to the present, as well as by high school sports and programs including band, drama, and other activities.

Angleton School History Center
Angleton IDS has provided the old library on the Downing Road site as a permanent home for the Angleton School History Center. Donations of material are accepted at the center of Administration building.

The AHS journalism department has provided school yearbooks from the 1900s to 2000s and Angleton Times newspapers from the 1900s to 2000s.

Historical Note
On August 28, 1897, Angleton citizens voted 78 to 8 to incorporate for free school purposes. A one-room 20 x 30 building, unpainted and without a ceiling, was erected facing west on Chenango Street. A 1937 AHS yearbook includes the description of the school: “it is with gratitude that we enjoy the result of the efforts made in behalf of the Angleton’s school children, for it was once truthfully said that been the jail was than the first school building.”

Contacts
the Angleton School History Center is open for special events and class reunions and on Wednesday afternoons. To make an appointment as a group or individual, contact Linda Winder.

Linda Winder
Retired AISD Teacher
979-849-6538
lwidner4323@att.net