Quincy Adams Wooster visited Texas from Iowa in 1891, sold his farm, moved his family to this area, and with his business partner Willard D. Crow bought thousands of acres along Scott's Bay. He had the town of Wooster surveyed and platted on January 20, 1893. The Wooster Schoolhouse was built in 1894 on First Street near Market Street Road on land donated by Junius Brown. Designed by Q. A. Wooster and built by Wooster, Brown, and their sons and sons-in-law, it used cypress for the frame and exterior siding and longleaf heart pine for the interior. On April 9, 1895, Harris County Commissioners Court was petitioned to create School District No. 38, including Scott's Bay and Lynchburg, and Q. A. Wooster, Junius Brown, and John Wesley Crow were elected the first trustees. Serving seven grades, the school became part of the Goose Creek school district in 1919. The schoolhouse closed and reopened several times, was moved in 1937 to the new David G. Burnet Elementary School, and was used as a classroom, cafeteria, and music room. It also served for Sunday School lessons and as a voting place. During World War II, Wooster's population increased greatly because of the nearby Humble Oil & Refining Company and the Humble Docks. In the 1950s, the City of Baytown annexed Wooster, then still a rural community. Hurricanes Carla in 1961 and Alicia in 1983, extensive subsidence, and industrial-use property acquisitions removed most historic resources from Wooster. The schoolhouse closed as a school facility for the last time in 1980 and was moved in 1986 to Republic of Texas Plaza for use as a museum. As the oldest known existing one-room frame schoolhouse in Harris County, it continues to have educational and historical value to the community.