Site of Early Commerce Schools

By 1883, Commerce's scholastic population had outgrown the public school that had opened ten years earlier, and land at this site, purchased by the Commerce Educational Assoc., was chosen for a new schoolhouse. The first building here, a two-story frame structure, became Commerce High School. After fire destroyed it in 1898, a larger brick building replaced it and served as Commerce High and later as Central Ward School. A third building, completed in 1937, was renamed in 1950 to honor A. L. Day, who served as superintendent of Commerce Schools from 1900 to 1935.

Commerce, Texas · United States