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Jarrett and the
Old Jarrett SchoolhousePhotographer’s
Note:
Located about
2 miles NE of Swinney Switch, Texas on
a big “S” curve you will find the last reminder of the community of Jarrett, Texas.
There is little information to find on the little community and its origin.
One set of my GG-granparents bought and moved into the old Caldwell place in 1906
about 2 miles NE of here. They lived about the same distance from Clareville
in Bee County and claimed both as being from. My GG-Grandmother cried when they
drove up in the wagon and she saw this old run down house with a dog-run through
it. This house was pretty old then. She couldn't believe she left a nice east
Texas farm for this!
The schoolhouse was not the original as my grandmother
(96) said she remembers the wood post base for an earlier school just a stone’s
throw away to the NW. There was also a “Spanish” school on the north side at
one time. |
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The
horse watering trough on school ground
Photo courtesy William
Beauchamp, August 2009 |
| The old horse trough
is still out back where the corral for the horses once stood. The old floors
were oiled twice a year - as told by the main teacher’s son. This was evident
as vandals tried to pry the old floor out but it was solid as could be and they
quickly gave up. |
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2008 the school had been covered in brush. A group from nearby Swinney
Switch cleared the brush around it in 2009 and were trying to gain funds to
restore the old place. My mother's wedding shower in the 1950's was the last
function held at the school. - William
Beauchamp, November 2009 | |
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