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  Garland High School began classes in the

  1902-1903 academic year. Operating in the

  old Garland College building on the west

  side of 9th Street between Avenues A & B,

  the faculty offered primary,  intermediate,

  high school and college-level instruction.

  Civic convocations were held in the

  auditorium, which accommodated crowds

  like the one shown here ca. 1912.

  The Handley School, located on thewest side

  of Jupiter Rd across from the present  Raytheon/

  E-Systems plant, was operated by theDallas

  County School System. Miss Grace Davis

  (Glaze) is pictured ca. 1930 with students in front

  of the school building, which was later moved and

  converted to a band hall at Garland High School

  The Garland Fair Park and Training Track,

  established in 1908, was located northwest

  of the present intersection of Avenue D

  and First Street. Rumored to be the site

  of occasional wagers, the facilities also

  offered animal breeding services and

  hosted the Garland Stock Show each May.

  The park's slogan was "The best is the

  cheapest."

  The 1909 Football Team was the fourth

  official varsity squad for GHS and the

  first to play on an advance schedule,

  instead of drawing opponents by the week.

  Its record was one win, two ties and three

  losses. Local teams of this area played

  without football helmets.

  Garland's George Washington Carver

  Tigers football team competed in Class A

  of the Prairie View League. Pictured is action

  during their outstanding '64.65 season, the

  Tigers advanced to the state finals, losing to

  Bartlett High 8-6.

  School basketball in 1908-09 was apparently

  reserved for girls as football was for boys. It

  was also an outdoor sport, probably played on

  dirt courts, since the school had no gymnasium

  in those days. Shown here with their coach and

  referee is one of the earliest GHS teams, which

  played in sailor tops and bloomers.

  Garland High School Cheerleaders helped

   kick off a successful grid season in the fall 

  of 1951. Standing l-r are Virginia Lewis, 

  Jerry Burch, Jo Ann Wyrick and Virginia

  Hurst. Kneeling are Louise Turner and

  Joan Eggleston.

  The red brick schoolhouse was completed

   for the 1899-1900 term and extensively 

   remodeled in 1912 and 1925. It faced east

   onto 9th Street in the block between

   Avenues A and B, hosting instruction from

   the first through the eleventh grades. 

   Grammar school classes met on the first

   floor of the building while high school 

   classes occupied the second until the 

   Garland High School campus was 

   completed in 1936. Destroyed by fire in

   January of 1946, this building was replaced

   with the present one story structure.

  The Garland College Building faced east onto

   9th St. between Avenues A & B. Erected in

   1889 by the non-profit Garland College

   Association, the structure became the plant of

   the Garland Independent School District when

   voters created it in 1901. GISD trustees

   assumed existing operations of the college,

   whose curriculum covered primary, high

   school and college levels. The building was

   significantly enlarged and remodeled in 1912

  The Continental Motors baseball team, shown here

  during WWII, consisted of plant employees who played

  after hours against other adult teams of the area.

  Operating in the early core of the present Kraft Foods

  complex, Continental produced both tank and aircraft

  engines from 1943 until the end of the war.