in
Austin, United States
Category:
Attraction
1 views
0 shares
0 comments
set bookmark!
Created/changed by:
System
Address details
1102 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704, USA
Print route »
Phone & WWW
Business hours
Info
Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) is a state-operated primary and secondary school for deaf children in Austin, Texas. The oldest public school in Texas that has been continually in operation, it was first opened in 1857 "in an old frame house, three log cabins, and a smokehouse." The school struggled under inadequate funding during the American Civil War and its aftermath with the students eating food that they grew themselves on the school farm. In 1951 the State Board of Education assumed oversight of the school.