LEATHERS SCHOOL, sometimes called SEED TICK SCHOOL 1893-1923 was located between Salem and Windrow. It was on the north side of Windrow Road at the bend of the road just before Windrow Hill. It was behind the John Haynes house but was farther back than the LAWRENCE CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK.…
HOOVERS GAP SCHOOL early 1900’s-1915 was on the east side of the Manchester Highway near its intersection with Hoovers Gap Road. Harvey Hoover had owned a store on that side of the road but had built a new store to the south of it. The school occupied the old store…
OAK GROVE SCHOOL 1888-1938 was on Oak Grove Road and near the Old Leb Church. It was “a hundred yards north of Dry Creek and about the same distance east of the road.” It was the third school in the Link Community, following FATE LAMB CORNER SCHOOL, and before that,…
CARTER’S CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK 1878-about 1916 was on the east side of Cripple Creek Road, about one-fourth mile north of Donnell’s Chapel which was on the Bradyville Road. It was next to Carter’s Chapel Baptist Church. Jim Carter gave the land for the school, the site of which is shown…
FOSTERVILLE SCHOOL PRIVATE 1897-1903 was a short lived school near the railroad track and north of the depot in Fosterville. J. M. “Uncle Matt” Edwards and wife M. E. sold two acres of their land to the School Directors, J. M. Edwards, P. E. Prater, and Moses Swann Lynch. The…
WRAY’S SCHOOL fl. 1880’s-1924 was located in the community of Snell. The school was first on a dirt road about one-half mile south of the old Franklin dirt road and just west of the present Coleman Hill Road. It was built in a wooded area on land owned by Thomas…
PATTERSON SCHOOL 1896-1953 was located first on the south side of the present Coleman Hill Road and about 1/2 mile east of its intersection with Patterson Road. On October 31, 1896, R. L., W. G., and Evie Pate signed a deed for two acres for a school in the 47th…
KNIGHT SCHOOL 1893- was on the southwest corner of the intersection of Barfield Road and the Shelbyville Highway. Because of the interest that James M. Knight had “in the education of the white children of his neighborhood,” he sold one on acre for one dollar for as long as there…
HALLIBURTON SCHOOL 1860’s was in the Rucker Community. The 1878 Beers Map shows it to have been on the south side of the Rucker Road just east of the railroad. The school was held in a residence owned by the Halliburtons who had a spare room. The teacher was “a…
VERSAILLES SCHOOL 1850’s-l885 or 1886 was the first school known in the area. It was in the southeast corner of the Nance property where the Nance farm joins the Bill Williams-Willie Floyd Williams land. It was on the 10th District 1/2 mile east of Versailles on the north side of…