. The geography of Texas, physical and political. gift of the peopleof Denton. 117. Southwest Texas Normal School. The third normalschool in the state was created by an act of the twenty-sixth Legislature approved May 10, 1899. It is locatedat San Marcos, a thriving town on the International andGreat Northern and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-roads, thirty-one miles southwest of Austin. The citizensof the town donated a commanding site containing abouteleven acres, and known as Chautauqua Hill, upon whicha suitable building has been erected at a cost of $^25,000(act of the twenty-seventh
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. gift of the peopleof Denton. 117. Southwest Texas Normal School. The third normalschool in the state was created by an act of the twenty-sixth Legislature approved May 10, 1899. It is locatedat San Marcos, a thriving town on the International andGreat Northern and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-roads, thirty-one miles southwest of Austin. The citizensof the town donated a commanding site containing abouteleven acres, and known as Chautauqua Hill, upon whicha suitable building has been erected at a cost of $^25,000(act of the twenty-seventh legislature approved March 28,1901). The first annual session opened September 9,1903. 138 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS 118. Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College. This institution, located near Hempstead in Waller county,has for its mam object the education of colored was established in 1876 by an act of the fifteenthlegislature and is under the management of the boardof directors of the Agricultural and INIechanical Fig. 85. SouxinvEsx Texas State Normal School, Sax ]\ 119. The College of Industrial Arts for Young Women ^ was established by an act of the twenty-seventh legisla-ture. The commission appointed to locate the institutionselected a tract of seventy acres in the northeast part ofDenton, which was donated by the citizens of that towntogether with 816,050. The central portion of an excel-lent building has been erected, in which the school wasopened September 23, 1903. An artesian well six Imn-dred feet deep, just in the rear of the building, gives a 1 Formerly the Girls Industrial College. EDUCATION 139 bounteous supply of the purest water. By legislativeenactment, the Board of Regents are given the necessarypowers to establish and maintain a first-class industrialinstitute and college for the education of white girls in thisstate in the arts and sciences. The general object of thisinstitution is to fit and prepare such girls for »
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