5/25/2023 0 Comments Austin 1940s 1950sOriginally called the Tenth Ward School after the district it served, the building became known as Palm School in 1902 when renamed to honor Sir Swante Palm, a prominent member of the Austin community and education benefactor. The site remained under the control of the federal government until 1887 when it was transferred to the newly created Austin School Board to become an elementary school. In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States, becoming a state, and turning over all military sites to the federal government that were under control of the Republic of Texas. ![]() The Republic of Texas also used the site to house a barracks and cannon production facilities. Edwin Waller, who became the first mayor of Austin, planned for an armory to occupy the site, then located at the intersection of Water Street & East Avenue. Hancock in 1838, but it was promptly repossessed in 1839 by the Republic of Texas in Edwin Waller’s plan for the new capitol city of Austin. The first recorded information for the building was that it was granted to a man named G. ![]() Palm School, founded in 1892, was one of the first elementary schools in Austin, predated only by Pease Elementary School however, this was not the first use of the site. On the corner of Cesar Chavez and the I-35 frontage road stands the old Palm School building, the current home of the Travis County Health and Human Services and Veteran Services building, but the building is best known as the elementary school that stood in service to the communities of East Austin for 84 years before closing in 1976.
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