McLEAN’S SCHOOL f1. 1878-? was 1/2 mile south of Midland on the west side of the road. The exact name of the school is not known but the 1878 Beers Map shows a school house across the road from the C. G. McLean residence. On January 6, 1896, C. G.…
WAYSIDE SCHOOL c1909-1937 was on the corner of Wayside Road and Epps Mill Road where the present Wayside Baptist Church now stands. Will Johnson, Mary Ann Woods O’Brien, and Frank O’Brien bought the land from Will Woods for a school and a church. No deed was filed. CROSS LANES SCHOOL…
JORDAN SCHOOL 1880’s was on Vaughn Road which runs west off Beasley Road in the Blackman area. Names of Blackman and Bass are on the Beers Map of 1878. Mary Bass Blackman, b. April 9, 1875, rode her horse to school. She was a student. SOURCE: *Bessie Lee Batey Haynes,…
INDEPNDENT HILL SCHOOL 1922-1940 was on the south side of Independent Hill Road, about one and one-half miles west of its intersection with the Almaville Road in District 4. On May 13, 1922, W. S. Newsome and wife sold to the County Board of Education one acre of land for…
CHRISTIANA or JORDAN’S VALLEY SCHOOL 1850’s was in the center of the village about where the present post office now stands. It was built soon after the N.C. & St. L. railroad was run through in 1849 and before HARD START SCHOOL was built in about 1872. The school was…
BIG SPRING SCHOOL or CARLOCKSVILLE SCHOOL, 1860’s was west of the Big Spring. It was on a road that ran east of the Manchester Highway. Its exact location is not known. Alline Kelton was told by her father that the school was a brick building. The only brick building Quinton…
HENCH’S COLLEGE 1878 was on the farm of W. H. Youree 1.5 miles south of the Bradyville Road and about one-half mile east of the Cripple Creek Road. The site of the farm and the name W. H. Youree are on the 1878 Beers Map. The subscription school was held…
FLORATON SCHOOL 1890’s-c 1912 was located on the west side of Rock Hill Road, later called Kittrell Road, between the Bradyville and Woodbury Roads. Locally the school was called “POSSUM TROT.” The school and community were named after Flora, the daughter of William Travis. Although the school was in operation…
SEED TICK before Civil War was located on the north side of Camp Ground Road about one-fourth mile west of its intersection with the Shelbyville Pike. It is on the Beers Map of 1878. The property was later owned by Bob Edwards and Tom Cook. The building was a one-room…
BEECH GROVE HIGH SCHOOL 1900-1963 was on the west side of State Road 8, the old Manchester Turnpike, and about .75 miles south of Beech Grove in Coffee County. William Jacobs deeded three acres of land to the Coffee County Board of Education for a school. Materials from the BEECHGROVE…