The Brazoria County Historical Museum presents School Days, an exhibit which
will remain open through February 2003. The exhibit features images and
materials from Brazoria County schools both past and present including
yearbooks, diplomas and photographs. Examples of contracts with teachers
dating to the early 1830s and public advertisements promoting local schools
from the same periods are on display as well. Because Brazoria County is the
birthplace of modern Texas, it also is where some of the earliest secular
schools were established.
The Brazoria County Historical Museum has a number of interesting materials
from many schools across the county in its collection, including yearbooks
dating to 1913 and scrapbooks from the 1920s. The Museum also maintains a
large collection of school photographs many of which show youths at play and
even some of the early school buses used to transport students at the
beginning of the twentieth century. Many of these images need verification
of the dates and identification of people who are in them. The public is
welcome to come to the Museum’s research library and assist with this
identification project.
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