Thorp Springs Christian College
1914-15 Yearbook & Vintage Photos
Thorp Spring, Texas

"My grandmother, Nevita Nolley (second from right, age 16), with classmates in a posed picture 1915, making fudge in the dorm room."

History

"Thorp Springs is a historic school site. In the year 1873 when the country was new and sparsely settled, when educational facilities were limited, Add-Ran College was established here by Uncle Joe Clark and his sons, Addison and Randolph Clark.

It was a flourishing school, and many men and women, found in the active places of life to today, were its students; and obtained an education, in part at least, at this place. They have sacred memories of the hills and vales, of the beautiful surrounding of Thorp Springs, clustered with the remembrance of association and school work here.

At a meeting held here, March 1, 1910, the Trustees of Add-Ran Jarvis College, formally transfered the property to a new board of trustees. This transfer placed the property where it can never be diverted from its proper use, or fall into the hands of those who have digressed from the truth. The charter provisions guarantee this." (See History page)

Tuition

Thorp Springs Christian College Building

Birds Eye View of Girls' Home

Baseball Team

Girls' Demosthenian Society

Subject: Grandmother at Thorp Spring
Thank you so much! Great job, well done! I'm so excited that you are preserving Texas history! My grandmother would be so thrilled! Thank you, thank you, thank you! - Catherine Williams Hiesiger, January 19, 2012

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