R. F. Hardin High School
R. F. Hardin High School, previously Brownwood Colored High School, was a K-12 school for black children in Brownwood, Texas, operated by the Brownwood Independent School District. In 1885, George E. Smith, a former slave and Buffalo Soldier established a school for black children that would later become R. F. Hardin High. Initially Smith served as principal and teacher, and the school met in Black churches. In 1896, the school recruited Rufus F. Hardin to come teach. Hardin had been born a slave in 1859, and graduated from Prairie View Normal Institute as well as Paul Quinn College in Waco, Tillotson College in Austin, and Fisk University in Tennessee. Hardin taught in Lee Chapel Church at the corner of Cordell and Hendrick, and in a two story building at Beaver and Cordell from 1896 until a stroke forced him to retire in 1934. The school was known as the Cordell School, and had only Hardin and one other teacher. In 1910 the school district voted to purchase property for a public ...
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