Colorado Citizen, February 6, 1879, July 13, 1882, August 3, 1882, August 24, 1882, September 7, 1882. In 1880, the teacher at the black school in Oakland was Noah H. Townsend. He may have been the brother of Reed Townsend (see Tenth Census of the United States (1880), Schedule 1, Colorado County, Texas).