FOX HOLLOW SCHOOL c1900 was on Fox Hollow Road which runs east off the Manchester Highway. It was on the right fork of the road soon after the road divides and was on the right side of the fork. No exact name is known for the school. Lee Jacobs and…
LA VERGNE SCHOOL fl. 1887-c 1911 was on the southwest side of the Nashville Turnpike and on the south side of the present Church of Christ. On November 12, 1887, W.A. Goodman sold to the Christian Church a part of the school lot. The frame school building contained one room…
CANE RIDGE SCHOOL 1826-1893? was located on Old Hickory Boulevard about one and one-half miles south of the present I-24/Old Hickory Boulevard intersection. The school was at one time on the same side of the road as the graveyard and the red brick church. Because of a change in the…
HOLLANDALE SCHOOL 1924-c 1936 was in District 2 in the present Hollandale area of Lavergne. On January 15, 1925, Arnanda McLaughlin, W.N. McLaughlin, and Mrs. G.W. Gooch, Sr., deeded to the Rutherford County Board of Education two acres of land for a common school. It was located on the old…
QUINN’S CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK – about 1941 was first located between the properties of Henry Roberts and Tony Manier on the east side of Morgan Road. Later it was moved about 3/4 of a mile north from Morgan Road to Patterson Road on land that had been owned by Frank…
PORTERFIELD SCHOOL 1888-1939, known at first as PORTERFIELD NORMAL ACADEMY, was erected on land given by a McKnight. J. A. Dement and Amziah McKnight, aided by other men in the community, built the school. It was located on the old Hall’s Hill Pike between Hall’s Hill and Milton and on…
SILVER HILL SCHOOL fl. before 1887-1924 or 1925 was located about ten miles from Murfreesboro on the east side of the old Lebanon Highway, not far from the Wilson County line. On February 10, 1887, Drury Hall and wifeMartha deeded three-fourths acre of land and a donation of ten dollars…
The Daily News Journal, Susan Harber, February 11, 2019 A generation of history within the walls of the Old Rock School in one article is unfeasible to behold. Thus, we will touch on bare highlights of a Smyrna school that originated some of the sharpest and most keen business minds…
CEDAR GROVE SCHOOL 1882-1911 was known as School No. 6 in District 24. It was located on the west side of Cedar Grove Road just before the Cedar Grove Methodist Church which is shown on the 1878 Beers Map. It was in the field east of the present home of…
LA VERGNE PREPARATORY SCHOOL early 1890’s-Nov. 1, 1900 was behind what was later called the “Rock Store” which now houses the Glass Contractors of Tennessee. It was on the northeast side of the present Waldron Road, just south of the railway overpass, and across from the LA VERGNE ACADEMY. The…