EAGLEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1924-1972 is on the same site as the concrete and stucco building which burned in August of 1923. By a deed signed October 28, 1963, W. Melvin Claxton and wife Elizabeth Sullivan sold an additional eight acres of land adjoining the school to the Rutherford County School…
THE EAGLEVILLE SCHOOL 1884-1890, commonly called the SAVAGE SCHOOL, was first located in the old MALE AND FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL building on the right of the Baptist Church. The school building and church are shown on the Beers Map of 1878. School was started on the second Monday in January,…
EAGLEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1890-1915 was located next to the Baptist Church and in the same building which Dr. Savage had erected. It was on Church Street in the community of Eagleville. According to Miss Pearl Tucker, who entered school about 1898 or 1899, the SAVAGE SCHOOL burned before she was…
EAGLEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1915-1923 was moved in 1915 to its present location on the south side of State Road 99 and about one-fourth mile east of its intersection with 41A. On July 22, 1912, J. E. Sullivan and wife Emma, J. D. Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, and H. W. Sullivan had…
BUNKER HILL SCHOOL, 1898-1913 and 1920-1926 was on the south side of Bunker Hill Road, first about one-half mile and later one-fourth mile west of the present Hay Road. It is thought that the first school closed in 1913 and the second was built in 1920. It is not known…
May 7, 2019, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal Thomas Edison once said, “I never did perfect an invention I did not think of in terms of service to others … I find what the world needs and proceed to invent.” Today, those same words are strongly applicable to our…
May 1, 2019, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal Eagleville Baptist Church on 159 Church Street is immersed in rich history of paramount significance. Baptisms, burials, weddings, gospel meetings, and deep friendships were a mainstay for this close-knit house of worship. A Tennessee historical marker is erected on the grounds…
SIMMONS SCHOOL 1884-1914 was located four or five miles north of Eagleville on Rocky Glade Road. Bill Simmons gave the land on which the school was built. The schoolhouse was a small, one-room, weatherboarded building. It had one door at the front and wIndows at each side. The first teacher…
November, 2012 The Eagleville Times The small community of Eagleville was very fortunate to have a “community center” several years before the Library and Community Center was built, next to the Eagleville United Methodist Church, on Highway 99. The home of the Middle Tennessee One Gallus Fox Hunters Association, previously…
HAYNES SCHOOL 1878-1920’s was on Fishingford Road, now Fruit Valley Road, at its intersection with Kingdom Church Road. It was across from King Cemetery and the Kingdom Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which is still used. The site, first in Rutherford County, is now across the county line in Bedford County. On…