Bayou Meto Schoolhouse
Listed in the Arkansas Register of Historic Places in 2003, the Bayou Meto Schoolhouse is one of the last remaining historic school buildings in the area. The first Bayou Meto school was established in 1875, within the Pampas School District. It was held in a log corncrib before moving to a private home and then to the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church once located in a corner of the Bayou Meto Cemetery. In 1915, a separate one-room school was built less than a mile south of Bayou Meto. The Flood of 1927 forced the community to relocate the school to higher ground.
O.C. and John Etta Smith Lumsden donated one acre of land for this purpose and the one-room schoolhouse was moved to the present site. The Bayou Meto School District #26, created that year, served local white children in grades 1-8. In 1932, the one-room structure was replaced with the current two-room building. Between 1948 and 1960, the district slowly consolidated with DeWitt; with the structure no longer used as a school, the property returned to the Lumsden family. In 2001, the building was converted to The Schoolhouse Lodge.
Erected 2021 by Grand Prairie Historical Society. (Marker Number 17.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Disasters • Education. A significant historical year for this entry is 1875.
Location.
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 17 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Bayou Meto Cemetery (approx. 0.4 miles away); Bayou Meto United Methodist Church (approx. 0.4 miles away); South Bend Plantation (approx. 11.9 miles away); A.M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine (approx. 14.7 miles away); Battle of Arkansas Post (approx. 15.3 miles away); Immanuel High School (approx. 16.4 miles away); 38,000 Reasons to Fight (approx. 16.8 miles away); Four guns...opened on us and a thousand rifles from the pits (approx. 16.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Bayou Meto.
Credits. This page was last revised on July 27, 2021. It was originally submitted on July 26, 2021, by Ashley Sides of Little Rock, Arkansas. This page has been viewed 209 times since then and 31 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on July 26, 2021, by Ashley Sides of Little Rock, Arkansas. 2, 3. submitted on July 27, 2021, by Ashley Sides of Little Rock, Arkansas. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
