BLAIR SCHOOL before 1865-1890’s was in the La Vergne area. It was on the west side of the present Blair Road between Rock Springs and Chaney Roads on the property of James H. Blair, b. 1842, d. 1865. The name J. Blair is still shown on the Beers Map of…
SAND HILL SCHOOL BLACK 1920’s-1952 was to the north off Sand Hill Road. There was no road to the school itself. Presently there is a dead end road to the site. The schoolhouse was a one-room frame building. Among the teachers were Willie Alexander, Josephine Pruett, Rev. A.M. Hampton, Louise…
SPRING CREEK SCHOOL 1880-1926 was on the north side of Maddux Road which ran east off Lamar Road. It was about one-fourth mile east of Lannom Cemetery and near the head of Spring Creek. The school was on property owned by Simp Lannom. Bryant Flowers also owned property bordering the…
ROCKDALE SCHOOL District 1 before 1878-c 1965 first met in a building on William Freeman land in the Friendship Community. The building is thought to have been the one Friendship Church had used before 1854. The site of the school is on the 1878 Beers Map and is shown on…
MORGANS CHAPEL 1873-1882 was a subscription school held in the Morgan’s Chapel Methodist Church on the south side of Bradyville Pike. It was in the Dilton community. On September 15, 1873, Nace S. Overall signed a gift deed to B. M. Neal, Robert N. Ward, W. P. Henderson, John W.…
HENDERSON SCHOOL late l800’s-1934 was located on the Manchester Pike, south of its intersection with the Dilton-Mankin Lane but on the west side of the road. It was thought to have been built in the late 1800’s when Franklin Henderson owned the plantation and before Henry Pfeil bought the place…
HALL’S HILL SCHOOL 1937-1961 was built on the foundation of the previous school. The frame schoolhouse necessarily had a floor plan much like that of the school which had burned. Because it had no kitchen, patrons built a kitchen large enough to serve also as a dining room. An electric…
MURRAY SCHOOL 1952-1968 was located on the north side of Bradyville Pike about one-half mile west of the first site and near the location of the old DOUGLAS SCHOOL. On June 10, 1952, V. E. Haynes and wife Annie Cooper deeded the land to the Rutherford County School Commission. The…
LITTLE HOPE SCHOOL BLACK 1894-1965 was in the Little Hope area. It was on the west side of the present Baker Road and about one mile north of the BROWN’S CHAPEL SCHOOL. On September 8, 1894, Bird Peebles colored deeded one-half acre of land for a school. It bordered the…
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…