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Lon Morris College (LMC) was a private junior college located in Jacksonville, Texas, United States, and was the only school affiliated with the United Methodist Church that was owned by an individual conference and not the denomination as a whole. Lon Morris was an accredited two-year institute of higher learning, which provided instruction in ...
The 1922 team defeated John Tarleton to become junior college champions of Texas. Dropped at the onset of World War II, football was reinstated at Lon Morris College in 2009. Its final directory shows that L.M.C. offered men’s and women’s basketball and soccer, volleyball, softball, football, cross country/track, and baseball.
The Texas Historical Commission recognized Lon Morris College as the oldest junior college in Texas in 1972 and approved a marker for the campus. Lon Morris is also the only one of the pre-Civil War schools in East Texas still in existence.
3 wrz 2023 · Oldest junior college in Texas. Founded 1873 in Kilgore by Dr. Isaac Alexander, pioneer educator, as Alexander Institute. (A historical marker located in Jacksonville in Cherokee County, Texas.)
16 sie 2009 · Hundreds of schools were established in East Texas before the Civil War; Lon Morris College alone still exists as the oldest two year college in the entire state. This month marks its 100th anniversary as a junior college in its current location.
Marker Text: Oldest junior college in Texas. Founded in Kilgore by Dr. Isaac Alexander, pioneer educator. In 1875 it became property of the East Texas (now the Texas) Conference of the Methodist Church. It was moved to Jacksonville in 1894.
Lon Morris College (LMC) was a private junior college located in Jacksonville, Texas, United States, and was the only school affiliated with the United Methodist Church that was owned by an individual conference and not the denomination as a whole.
