The academies established by the Choctaws and Chickasaws in Indian Territory were mission schools.

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.

In 1887, O.L. Coleman opened a school for African American children in Gibsland, Louisiana.

I became good friends with some curious cows as I visited the remains of the former Fairview School, Greer County, Oklahoma.

Draughon's Business Colleges private offered a "no-frills education without sports teams, commencement, and other distractions."

Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma was home to Seeger Indian Industrial School and the Dutch Reformed Church mission.

East of DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas and a few miles south of the Red River is the tiny community of Garland.

The Blevins Training School was a high school during the era of segregation in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.