The purpose of this study was to make a critical evaluation of the San Saba Elementary School, San Saba, Texas. The strong and weak points of the school were considered, and suggestions were made for improvements where they are needed.

Detailed mapping of Carboniferous rocks westward from areas mapped by Bogardus and Oden shows that rock units within the Marble Falls formation are traceable across "Cavern Ridge" a "barrier" invented by Plummer and referred to by others. The Ives breccia, Chappel limestone, Barnett formation, and Lower member of the Marble Falls formation formed as a transgressive depositional sequence. A thin zone of bypassing separates the Barnett and Marble Falls, but a hiatus between them in the Hall area cannot be demonstrated. A small-scale disconformity exists between the Lower and Middle members of the Marble Falls. Local faulting during deposition of the Marble Falls produced the Gibbons conglomerate, influenced the accumulation of Middle Marble Falls shale, and elevated the "Hall Uplift." Some lithosomes in the Upper member of the Marble Falls pinch out near the "Hall Uplift." Sandstone and mudstone of the Strawn formation abut against the carbonate mass of the Marble Falls to the north, but whether a period of erosion intervened between the deposition of the two is not known. Analysis of seven species of corals, twenty-three of brachiopods, two of pelecypods, five of gastropods, two of cephalopods, two of trilobites, and fourteen of conodonts suggests that the Chappel, Barnett, and Marble Falls faunal assemblages most closely resemble those of the Chouteau formation, Caney formation, and Morrow group respectively. In the Hall area no part of the Marble Falls should be correlated with the Atoka series. / text

The growth of the pecan industry in San Saba offers a microcosm into the evolution of the industry as a whole. Individual ingenuity in agriculture, business, and technology carved a path for success for the native nut in San Saba. Thanks in part to the efforts by founding families of the area and their descendants, the pecan has become a widely-used ingredient in holiday sweets of the American South and a symbol of Texas identity. Yet, the industry's development and the lives of the people who have cultivated it are stories that have remained largely untold. Through oral histories with family pecan growers, descendants of migrant farm laborers, and others working in the industry as well as primary sources such as those from early pecan sales catalogs, United States Department of Agriculture and other government documents, this project will trace the history of the pecan in San Saba – including how it has shaped the natural landscape and the individual and collective identities of San Saba and its residents.