FOSTERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1903-1928 was at first a private or subscription school and then a public junior high school. The school was on the east side of the railroad tracks, across from the depot, behind the Presbyterian Church and Mrs. Alice Hoover’s house. This school was a consolidation of the…
LEE JACOBS SCHOOL 1915-1940 was on the east side of the Manchester Highway just south of the intersection of Fox Hollow Road. On August 20, 1915, Lee Jacobs and wife Lightie Hoover deeded 2.5 acres of land to the Rutherford County Board of Education. Presently the site is behind theold…
HOOVERS GAP ACADEMY 1872-fl. 1897 was at the intersection of Hoovers Gap Road and the Manchester Highway. It was on the east side of the Manchester Highway on a hill across from the Methodist Church. It was not far from a Civil War trench and a spring of water. The…
FOSTERVILLE SCHOOL BLACK 1897-1947 was located on the east side of the U.S. 231 Highway between Christiana and Fosterville. It was on the first knob north of the Midland Road, just south of the present Faulk’s sawmill, and across from the home of the Fraziers and Braceys. The land was…
DILTON SCHOOL 1898-1942 was the relocation of the old OAKLAND ACADEMY to a site .3 of a mile east of the Dilton store on the north side of the Bradyville pike. On June 7, 1913, J. T. Bivins and wife Belle, D. M. Bivins and wife Myrtle, and W. C.…
The McBRIDE SCHOOL between 1837 and 1851-1910’s was located west of Midland just over the Bedford County line. It was on the north side of the road about 1/2 mile east of the intersection with Longview Road. In 1837 Charles McBride bought a farm of 137 acres from Zephaniah Anglin…
FLAT ROCK BLACK 1878-1920’s was located about one mile east of Midland on the south side of Midland to U.S. 231 Highway. The site is shown on the 1878 Beers Map. Mr. Jim M. Williams, a school director and operator of the store at the Midland crossroads, provided the building.…
CAMPGROUND SCHOOL 1878-1895 was located at the southeast intersection of the Midland-Shelbyville Road and the Campground Road. Its site is marked on the 1878 Beers Map. The one-room building was built on the east of the church grounds and faced the church rather than the Midland Road. A teacher was…
BRANDON TRAINING SCHOOL 1895 was founded by Alfred J. Brandon, Jr., in Christiana. It is thought that this school for older students occupied one room at the HERMITAGE ACADEMY before relocating in Wartrace. According to Gilbert Gordon’s book, “In 1895 when he was about sixteen, Alf Gordon began going to…
WEBBS CHAPEL BLACK (late 1910’s) was on the west side of the Barfield-Crescent Road near the Webbs Chapel Methodist Church. The frame building had one room. Mattie Butler Bracey was a teacher here after she taught at MORTON SCHOOL in about 1913. When the school was torn down, classes were…