Long Hollow School is one of the many forgotten schools of Travis County and Volente. Not too much history is known about this school. Not too much history of this school has been preserved in documentation offline or online. This news article will explain the history behind Long Hollow School. 
Long Hollow School was once located where Anderson Mill was once extant on at the intersection of Lime Creek Road (FM 2769) & Buick Hollow Road, in Volente, Texas. The school was possibly built around 1877. The exact year is unknown. John Jarrell built Long Hollow School using lumber hauled in all the way from Bastrop. The cost of the lumber used to build this school was 5¢ cents a square foot. The school was named after the Long Hollow Creek branch. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/357745990/)
Long Hollow School educated students in grades 1 through 10. Long Hollow School had its own school district called Long Hollow School District which Sandy Creek School, Double Branch School, and Double Horn School were a part of.
At one time, a traveling preacher wanted to put a chandelier on the ceiling of Long Hollow School. One resident protested this because nobody could use them if they had one. (Ref: Austin American, Page 15, Tuesday, October 2, 1962)
“When he was a boy, he worked for Capt. Tom as garden help, for 10 and 15 cents a day. He got a good education for that day and time went to the Long Hollow School from the time he was nine until he was 17. He had an English schoolmaster, Walter Irwin Rowe, who didn't know a double shovel when he saw one but he knew a lot about books, all kinds of books. Rufus' granddaddy John built that Long Hollow School, and it cost 5 cents a square foot for the lumber, hauled all the way from Bastrop. One time a traveling preacher wanted to put a chandelier in it "Now Preacher, let's don't go too far on this here school building," protested one old resident "Ain't nobody here could play one of them things if we had one!"”
Educators claim Long Hollow School as highly regarded by the community. Professor W. I. Rowe had this statement today about Long Hollow School. “This school he worked up to a high state of efficiency such as no school in that neighborhood has since seen, and his reputation there is still present in the minds of the people.”
(Ref: Austin Weekly Statesman, Page 1, Tuesday, February 23, 1909)
(Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/366286578/)
Long Hollow School had an unused school building that was sold and advertised in the Austin Weekly Statesman during the summer of 1908. Proceeds of that sale would be used to make much needed repairs to the then-current building. (Ref: Austin Weekly Statesman, Old School House to Be Sold, Page 2, Friday, July 31, 1908)
“Old School House to Be Sold. The county commissioners have authorized the trustees of the Long Hollow School District to sell an unused school building; In the district and to use the proceeds for making needed repairs on the present building.”
Long Hollow School and Long Hollow School District were consolidated into Leander ISD along with Volente School in 1938. It is unknown what happened to the Long Hollow School building.
Long Hollow School was located at the intersection of Lime Creek Road (FM 2769) & Buick Hollow Road, Volente, Texas, US 78641.
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