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The Mansfield Academy Graduating Class of 1906 included (top row) "Tad" Ramsey Nifong, Jim Chorn, Unknown and Billy Harrison; (front row) Unknown, Louis Reed and Nellie Williams. In 1901, the citizens of Mansfield organized the Mansfield Academy Association and purchased the school grounds from the Commissioner's Court of Tarrant County. The brick building for the academy was completed Oct. 7, 1901. J. Henry Phillips and S.V. Carmack conducted the school until the summer of 1909. The Mansfield Academy closed in the summer of 1909 when the Mansfield Independent School District formed.
To learn more about Mansfield history, check out the Mansfield Historical Museum, 102 N. Main St., open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more info, call 817-473-4250, emailmuseum@mansfieldtexas.gov or go to mansfieldhistory.org.
Photo courtesy of the Mansfield Historical Society.
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