Courtesy of the Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas Texas

During the 1890's the community was growing up around the railroad center. A residential area developed at the "foot of the hill" on what is now Belt Line and north and south on Old Denton Road.  Around the turn of the century a new two-story frame building was erected on land donated for that purpose by A.W. Perry at the intersection of Beltine line and Erie. Someone has quipped that it was an institution of "Higher Learning" because it was two stories high!

In a brochure entitled "The First Annual Announcement of the CARROLLTON HIGH SCHOOL, Carrollton, Texas, 1902-1903, the following information is given:

Faculty: G. A. Timmons, Principal High School and Intermediate Departments: Miss Cornelia Jewell, Intermediate and Primary Departments; Miss Nora Blalack, Music Department.

Trustees: District 4: J.H. Perry, W. H. Stephens, Andrew Jackson

The First Annual Session of this school shall begin on Monday, Sept. 1, 1902, and continue nine months

Photo identified from a similar photo printed in Elm Fork Settlement by Georgia Myers Ogle.  Text extract from the same.