Historical Markers in Texas

Chappell Hill Female College Bell

History·Washington County·Texas

Chappell Hill Male and Female Institute (founded 1850) pioneered in higher learning in Texas. Under Methodist Church after 1854. Women's branch was chartered separately, 1856. Rebuilt after a fire in 1871; this bell, cast 1873, is only relic of the old college, closed in 1912.

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30.1410, -96.2527

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