Woodland College for Boys

Historical marker location:

Kirvin, Texas

( 2 mi. NW of Kirvin on FM 1449 at entrance to Woodland Cemetery)

Marker installed: 1936

Established in 1863. Enrollment more than 300 students. Colonel L. R. Wortham donated ten acres of land for use as a campus, church and cemetery.

Charter trustees: Col. L. R. Wortham, Thomas Lamb, Dr. Rueben Anderson, Oliver Carter, John I. Winn, D. L. Carter, Noland Womack, T. L. Sessions, G. A. Sessions.

Prof. Hellery Moseley was its only president.

Mattie, Mary and Thomas Dixon were its teachers. The college became a grade school at the close of the Civil War. Discontinued in 1905 and moved to Kirvin.

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