In 1900 a group of Indiana families led by John M. Hart and Roland Alexander migrated to this area of Texas and found that land promoted as abundant in timber and rich soil was actually unfertile and susceptible to flooding. Although many of the pioneers returned to Indiana, those who stayed established a community called Little Indiana and soon set aside land for a school. The schoolhouse was built through a community effort, with logs hauled by oxen-drawn wagons to a local sawmill for cutting before construction. The seven-grade Little Indiana School opened about 1901 with Alta Alexander Hart as its sole teacher, and later teachers included Hazel Alexander, Harrison Bullock, William McCreight, and Ola McCreight. After several years of growth, illness and poor crops led to the abandonment of Little Indiana by 1907, closing the school and other establishments as some settlers returned to Indiana and others moved elsewhere in Texas.