Historical Schools of Cameron
	Cameron Public School (???? - 19??)
	This photograph was reportedly taken from an early postcard. This is the Cameron Public School building that was demolished in the 1950 or 1951. The photographer would have been standing were Central Avenue dead-ends into West 2nd Street. After demolition, the site was used as a Little League baseball field and is today used to park school buses. If any of our guests has more information on this school, please send e-mail!
		Your webmaster remembers walking through the old building shortly before it was demolished and grew up with one of its massive slate blackboards hanging in his kitchen.  The photo at left was taken 9/8/1951. The blackboard now hangs in the home of the little lady in the center.

Milam Liberal Institute (1848 - ????)
	This building housed the second public school built in the state of Texas. A Texas State Historical Marker application has been submitted for this building. Following is the article from The Handbook of Texas Online concerning the school. MILAM LIBERAL INSTITUTE. Milam Liberal Institute at Cameron, Milam County, was chartered on March 28, 1848, and is the first school known to have operated at Cameron. George B. Erathqv and George Green were on the board of trustees of the nondenominational school. The original brick building burned. How long the school operated is not known, but its second building was still in use as a business building and Odd Fellows hall in 1948. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cameron Enterprise, May 23, 1946. William Franklin Ledlow, History of Protestant Education in Texas (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1926). Ida Jo Marshall