Pleasant Grove School is one of the nearly forgotten schools of Elgin and Bastrop County. The school itself is located in Elgin, Texas.
Throughout its history, Pleasant Grove School was a negro school located in the northern portion of Bastrop County. Pleasant Grove Cemetery. In 1860, a log structure served as a school and church. Jim Catley was a founder of the Pleasant Grove School. E.E. Smith sold land to trustees of the Pleasant Grove School in 1871.
The school served 51 students in 1890 during the same time the community’s cemetery developed.
The building was razed in 1924, Lumber was used for the new schoolhouse. Pleasant Grove School was consolidated into the Elgin ISD in 1949 during the 1949-1950 school year.
Pleasant Grove Cemetery Association purchased the former schoolhouse in 1967. Today, the burial ground remains the primary connection to the Pleasant Grove community. Although some of the many unmarked burials in the cemetery predate it, the earliest marked grave dates to 1871.
The Pleasant Grove School was located 229 Pleasant Grove Loop, Elgin, Texas, US 78621.
Pleasant Grove Cemetery was plowed in 1890. The earliest gravestone found is that of Clairbourn Scroggins, born in 1799. Among those buried here are military veterans from the Civil War to the present. The cemetery is a link to their memory and to the history of Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Grove Cemetery was designated as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004.
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