Overall School (Black) School, 1920-c1936

OVERALL SCHOOL BLACK f 1. 1920’s-c 1936 was east of Lofton. It was about one and one-half miles south of State Road 96 on the east side of Craddock Road. The schoolhouse was a one-room building which was used also by the Colored Overall Methodist Church. Known teachers were Odessa…

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Northcott School, 1879-1885

NORTHCOTT SCHOOL f 1. 1879-fl. 1885 was in District 22 about three-fourths of a mile east of Brown’s Mill on the east side of the Northcott farm. The ground was probably given by the elder James Northcott. The namesJ. Northcott and S. Kerr are on the 1878 Beers Map. The…

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Lascassas School (Black), ?-1945

LASCASSAS SCHOOL BLACK (1945) was held in the Sycamore Grove Missionary Baptist Church on the west side of Valley View Road and just north of the Jefferson-Milton Road. The one-room frame building was warmed by a coal heater. Water was carried from the home of Mrs. Zula Norris. Both desks…

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Hayes School, 1860’s-1899

HAYES SCHOOL f1. 1860’s-1899 was between Twelve Corners and Lofton and was on Rhodes Lane, now Jim Allen Road. It was on the property of Dave crouse about one mile off Cainsville Pike. A Mrs. D. Crouse is shown on the Beer’s Map of 1878. The school was a one-teacher,…

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Nolen School c1900-1923

NOLEN SCHOOL before 1900-c 1923 was on the Will Nolen farm on the east side of Compton Road and about two miles south of its intersection with the Lascassas Road. Its site is marked on the Dixie Highway Map. The one-room school was a weatherboarded building. Teachers were Alice Craddock,…

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Lascassas School, 1889-1927

LASCASSAS SCHOOL 1889-1927 was on the north side of the Lascassas-Milton Road. It was on land donated for “The building of a school” where a free school would be conducted in the fall and a tuition fee charged for a shorter spring term. The site was the one on which…

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Sharpesville School, 1868-c1918

SHARPESVILLE SCHOOL 1868-c 1918, first known as UNION SCHOOL, was on the present Guy James Road which turns north off the Hall’s Hill Road. The school was on the east side of the road and on the 1878 Beers Map it is marked as Union Church and School. On September…

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Lascassas High School, 1927-1972

LASCASSAS HIGH SCHOOL 1927-1972 was erected on the same site as the former building. On July 3, 1953, C. E. Dill deeded one acre beginning at the northwest corner of the LASCASSAS SCHOOL property; on July 11, 1953, John T. Brown and wife deeded to the Rutherford County School Commission…

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Lascassas Academy, 1824-1889

LASCASSAS ACADEMY 1824-1889 in District 22, formerly 16, was allegedly a private school as early as 1824. It was located about one-fourth mile west of the intersection of the present Old Lascassas Pike and the Jefferson Pike. It was on the south side of the road and was built slightly…

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