District: No. 104
Location Relative to Con. 8: 2.0 miles West, 2.5 miles South
Year of District Formation: 1902-1903
The year of formation was first inferred from the district number 104, as the total number of districts formed by summer of 1903 was 106. Recently Wilma (Duke) Stout has provided a copy of a picture of students in front of a school building that it is possible to identify as Mackey. One of the students is holding a chalk board on which is written Dist.104 , 1904. So, we now know that the building was completed in 1904 at least.
It is reported that the Mackey building as well as the Lone Star building and Olive Branch building was moved to the Con. 8 site after the fire of 1911 and used as a temporary class room.
Sources
1. History written by Mary (Briggs) Bock. The copy I have was provided to me by Maggie Lee (Barnes) Walker and is not explicitly dated, but the content shows that it was written within a few months of the closing of the school in May 1957. It would appear that it might have been written for publication in a Newspaper.