Riddle: “Where would they first educate Mexican schoolchildren? If you look nearby, you may see a place where some people without an education have unfortunately spent some time”.
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| Ruthie & I at The Nueces County Courthouse |
The answer didn't exactly come to us right away but soon enough we were brought to the Nueces County Courthouse where the site of the Cheston L. Heath school once stood. I learned that the Courthouse The Corpus Christi Independent School District had a list of academics and English taught to the city's Mexican-American students in the year of 1896. The number of student enrollment increased immensely after World War I and the school thrived until it was closed in 1968 and the students were mixed into the other district schools.The are expanded and the school district became the site of the Nueces County Courthouse in the year of 2000. At first I thought the marker was going to be pretty small but once I got up close to it, I had to scoot away just to read it. The impact it has made on the lives of Mexican-Americans is still shown today and this marker is one f them.
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