Site of Red Oak Academy in Texas

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Site of Red Oak Academy

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An early Texas college, founded near this site (at that time part of Brushy Mound), 1879; re-established as Alta Vista College, 1885. Transferred in 1893 to Presbyterian church, it was renamed Red Oak Academy and inspired name for this section: Academy Hill. The school closed in 1899.

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