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Wooster’s Burnet School and a Century of Local Life
Virginia Williams Wingate recalls Wooster history and the old Burnet Elementary School, opened 1930 beside Bayway Drive. She details Market Street Road’s evolution to North Market Loop, War Years air raid drills, cafeteria shifts, a growing campus, carnivals, and memory-filled playtime with friends, buses, and baseball games.
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Wooster
Virginia Williams Wingate
David G. Burnet
Bayway Drive
Arbor
Bayway
Market Street
Houston
Virginia
Wooster Heights
North Market Loop
San Jacinto River
Burnet
Baytown
ExxonMobil
Delia Adlong Harlan
Humble