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1800

By the middle of the 1800’s, Mansfield had grown so much that the town was divided into 15 school districts with two half districts near the border line of neighboring towns.

1809

The Society of Friends organized, and built a meeting- house in 1809.

1811

In 1811, the Methodists built a meeting-house in the east part; the Christian Baptist organized and built in the west part.

1825

The old mill was bought and sold a number of times, but until 1825 it continued to grind at least a handful of corn a year as a tribute for its twelve acres.

1835

In 1835 he started the business in his home.

1839

In 1839 a floor was laid, making the former gallery the church auditorium, thus leaving the ground floor, then referred to as the basement, for other purposes.

1846

About 1846 or a848, he built the shop on Park Street, then called Roger’s Lane.

First, Loren Willis’ axle shop, which was succeeded, about 1846, by Schenck’s machine shop, a $20,000 concern.

1848

When the school was given up, about 1848-9, the building was sold, the bell tower taken off, and the house moved to Fulton Street and made into the two family house still standing, No.

1852

In 1852 John Terry, an English foundry-man, erected a wooden building and started business.

1854

In 1854, Doctor Collier became a licensed Presbyterian minister.

1855

By 1855 Collier, with the help of a Professor Ewing and a Mrs.

1857

Jewelry has been manufactured in Mansfield since 1857, when the building, known so long as the Spaulding shop, was built by an association of Mansfield men.

1858

On August 26, 1858, Doctor Collier married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Fowler.

1861

With the onset of war in 1861, Collier joined L.S. Ross's brigade and served as a chaplain and scout east of the Mississippi River.

1863

In 1863, Frank G. Hodges of Attleboro began making bracelets in Henry Kingman’s barn.

1865

John H. Berry bought out the school, and began teaching, September 11, 1865.

By September 1865, the Oakland College opened in Grandview with Jim Poindexter, Levi Fowler and Doctor and Mrs.

1871

The college was incorporated on May 2, 1871 by the Twelfth Legislature of the State of Texas and was empowered to confer degrees in arts and sciences.

1874

Chilson, in 1874 built a foundry of his own.

In 1874, Simon W Card, who had come to town to work in John Birkenhead’s spindle shop, another business started in the 60’s, began the manufacture of taps and dies in a small building where the large Card factory now stands.

1877

Chilson carried on a very successful business until his death in 1877, when his executor, Eustace C. Fitz, carried it on until James E White bought out his interest.

In 1877, Professor Collier built a two-story brick and frame house on the west side of the school grounds for his family.

1878

In 1878, under the principalship of Frank M. Copeland, successor to Mr.

1887

The college closed in 1887 when Doctor Collier left for Waxahachie.

1889

The old college building burned in the spring of 1889, and on October 29, 1889, the property was sold to ED.L. Tims, C.F. Chrisman and J.H. Alexander as trustees of the Mansfield Male and Female College.

1890

On June 13, 1890, Doctor Collier's brick home and a fifty-three acre tract was deeded to A.J. Dukes.

In September 1890, A.J. Dukes deeded the school property to J.H. Alexander, A.B. Pyles and WG. Ralston, trustees of the Mansfield Public Free School and to their successors in office.

1901

In 1901, the citizens of Mansfield organized the Mansfield Academy Association and purchased the school grounds from the Commissioners' Court of Tarrant County.

1909

On May 22, 1909, 191 Mansfield voters cast ballots selecting the first board of trustees.

1914

Furthermore, his coaching in basketball helped the boys' basketball team win the county and district championships in 1914.

1916

The business remained in the hands of the Rider family until 1916 when it was bought by the Mansfield Foundry Company.

1920

Bus transportation was not introduced until the 1920s.

1924

On March 8, 1924, an election was held at the Memorial Hall for the construction and equipment of the first public school built by the board.

The 1924 Mansfield High School presently serves as the M.I.S.D. Administrative offices.

1925

The following article was written by Jennie F. Copeland for and published in the Mansfield 150th Anniversary Program for August 23 through 26, 1925.

The twenty-third of August, 1925, marks one hundred and fifty years since, by a General Act of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, Mansfield became incorporated as a town.

1939

They were instructed by the Board on April 23, 1939 to finalize plans for the building and file an application as a WP.A. project.

1940

The Rock Gym, a 1940 WP.A. project, began construction in May 1940, near the end of the Great Depression.

1944

In 1944, a bond election was approved to build two elementary schools.

1953

The school housed all white students, grades first through eleventh, until 1953, when a new elementary school was built.

1955

The school board also argued that one reason for delaying integration for the 1955-56 school year was that funds had already been transferred to the Fort Worth schools to cover the cost of the students’ attendance there.

1956

As the start of school neared in August of 1956, the black community was threatened by white supremacists to discourage African-American students from being registered at Mansfield High School.

1962

A bond issue for a new high school was passed on May 26, 1962.

Clearing of the thirty five acre tract began in December 1962, and construction began in March 1962.

1963

When a new high school was built in 1963, seventh and eighth grade students attended the school.

1965

Mansfield High School was one of the last schools to integrate, finally allowing African American students to enroll in 1965.

In 1965, faced with loss of federal funds, the Mansfield school district finally desegregated, its decade-long defiance of a federal school integration order was one of the longest in the nation during that period.

1998

The Mansfield ISD Education Foundation was founded in 1998 by community members who shared a passion for education.

2021

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