Parking aprons are good when cars are adjacent to grass or dirt. They are best when the parking lots themselves are dirt, grass or gravel.What about next to the parking lot that's where a lot of things get lost when your reaching in your pocket or purse for your keys.
Look for sites of your old schools. Here there is a historical marker for the first public school of texas, and its not where our new school is.
And quite often old schools still stand - but they are often absorbed into their surroundings, remodeled, and/or put to other uses.
I used to hit an old school that is now part of a larger seniors complex. Interestingly, most of the surrounding lawn was left intact.
Looks good. How did you find it?I found the one im hitting tonight after it cools down, it still exist and is on google streets has a historical marker too https://www.google.com/maps/@30.167...!1e1!3m2!1s_LwWBYTdkFDyGQJG4pCb9A!2e0!6m1!1e1
Okay thanks!Well i noticed that our school was fairly modern here, the high school anyway. So i got to thinking you know, what happened to the old schools here with the history of this county being what it is. So i googled old schools brenham texas and didnt see much in the links so i looked over the images. I got a few hits on those and went to the image locations and found out the first public school of texas was here. BOOM right! So i find out historical markers are there, just not the exact location, the marker is at 606 E alamo, but it really is at 600 E alamo. Enter it in google streets and found that baby. You would never know it without the research this was one of the first public schools here. Im not sure this is the very first building, but it was certainly one of the first few.
Took me a few hours of tinkering around to find it, but really all i did was start out looking in the basic history of the area. That has opened up a flood of potential targets, but some are private property like the old houses and farms(also searched old homes lol). itll make a day or more just looking up the old history of your area, finding old birdseye maps like: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Old_map-Brenham-1873.jpg
Finding the original site is the hard part, just got to dig dig dig, alot like pulltabs!