Marker Inscription
A Methodist institution chartered January 24, 1852 as Bastrop Academy. Rechartered under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1853. In 1856 became the Bastrop Military Institute.
Historical Marker
Bastrop Military Institute, Site of
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About this site
Bastrop Military Institute, Site of is a historical marker in Bastrop, Bastrop County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 103 historical markers documented in Bastrop County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 296 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.1148, -97.3214 near Bastrop. The nearest cataloged historic site is H. P. Luckett House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Green, Rufus A. House, Perkins, R. L., Home, and Allen-Bell House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5021009156. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
This marker records the site of the Bastrop Military Institute, which grew out of the Bastrop Academy chartered in 1852. Reorganized as a military school by 1856 under R. P. T. Allen, it taught mathematics, the sciences, classical languages, surveying, and engineering to a growing student body before the Civil War. The institution was moved to Austin in 1870 and renamed the Texas Military Institute.
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