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…
HERMITAGE ACADEMY 1878-c 1908 was built on a .75 acre lot in Christiana given by A. J. Brandon, Sr., to Trustees B. N. White, I. M. Miller, C. W. Johnson, R. S. Jameson, J. C. Patterson, A. J. Brandon, and N. C. Miller. Thedeed was dated August 24, 1878. The…
HARD START SCHOOL 1872-1883 was located in Christiana. It was built behind the present Church of Christ on the knob where Uncle Sandy Murray’s house later stood. It was across from the present Brandon View Baptist Church on Miller Road. Judge Tiliman Davis Johnson, born January 8, 1858, has this…
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.…
CHRISTIANA or JORDAN’S VALLEY SCHOOL 1850’s was in the center of the village about where the present post office now stands. It was built soon after the N.C. & St. L. railroad was run through in 1849 and before HARD START SCHOOL was built in about 1872. The school was…