LOWE SCHOOL 1870’s-late 1890’s was south of Mankin Road on the west side of the present Jap Johnson Road. It was School No. 4 in District 24. The school was on the Jap Johnson place. Tennie Lowe was a teacher. According to a school register which he kept, William Pleasant…
RUTHERFORD COLLEGE 1870’s-1925 was located off the present 1-40 Buchanan exit and just south of the truck stop on Epps Mill Road. The school was first on the east side of the road on the farm of A. J. Todd, once the Howland farm where Estes Miles, former governor of…
OAKLANDS ACADEMY 1882-1898 was so named because of the large oaks in the yard. It was located on a corner where Overall, Wilson, and Lytle Creek Roads meet. William H. Smith and son, Alexander T. Smith, deeded an acre of land, June 5, 1880, to W. J. Knox and other…
CHRISTIANA SCHOOL 1908-1931 was located on the south side of the present Church Street, the main street in Christiana. On June 13, 1908, Charlie Anderson Gordon and wife sold to the Rutherford County Board of Education 1/2 acre with a house, formerly owned by R. O. Hale, for $500. The…
SALEM MALE ACADEMY 1837- may have been the school marked on the 1878 Beers Map at the intersection of Windrow Road and Salem Pike in District 12. Trustees of the school were: John S. Russwurm, James M. King, Elias King, Benjamin Johnson, Benjamin C. Ransom, John Rawson, and William Ledbetter.…
HUNT’S HILL SCHOOL late l800’s-1918, also called MUD DAUB and MUD COLLEGE, was on the south side of Hall’s Hill Road about one mile east of the Presbyterian and Christian Churches shown on the 1878 Beers Map. The name of William Hunt, who owned property along the road, is also…
SILVER SPRING SCHOOLHOUSE before 1849. On May 3, 1849, Silas Tucker deeded to William D. Neal the one acre on the Stones River which he had reserved for a school lot. The school was known as SILVER SPRING SCHOOLHOUSE and had burned. The lot was no longer needed. The land…
EWINGSVILLE SCHOOL 1899-1925 or 1926 was on the North Milton Road just across the Rutherford County line in Wilson County. Students from both counties attended the school. EWINGSVILLE was first a one-teacher and then a two teacher school. Known teachers were Hannibal Jennings, Quixanna Cook, and Herman Rhodes. Maynard Knight…
BROWNS SCHOOL BLACK 1888-1949, sometimes called ANTNEY BROWN SCHOOL, was in the woods east of TWELVE CORNERS. There was no road to the school. The site today would be at the dead end of Ball Park Road which runs north off Ruel McKnight Road which in turn runs north off…
CRIPPLE CREEK SCHOOL c1900-1921 was on the west side of Cripple Creek Road, about two miles north of the Bradyville Road, and a few hundred feet south of the present Presbyterian Church. It was on a farm owned by Russell Patrick. In about 1900 the Standridge Presbyterian Church changed its…