HICKORY GROVE 1848-before 1912 was located 2.5 miles south of Christiana on the east side of the railroad tracks. The site is indicated on the 1878 Beers Map. A deed registered on September 18, 1848, shows that Erismus C. Lynch gave five acres and water rights for a school and…
HAYNES SCHOOL 1878-1920’s was on Fishingford Road, now Fruit Valley Road, at its intersection with Kingdom Church Road. It was across from King Cemetery and the Kingdom Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which is still used. The site, first in Rutherford County, is now across the county line in Bedford County. On…
GREENWOOD SCHOOL 1871-1914 was on the west corner of the intersection of State Road 99 and Greenwood Road. Greenwood Church and School are on the Beers Map of 1878. The bottom floor of the two-story building was used as a school for the children of the area. The second floor…
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL f 1. 1884-1923 was located on Little Rock Road about three and one-half miles northeast of Eagleville. It was on land owned by James E. Jackson. In the neighborhood ‘as a grocery store, a tiling mill, and rental houses for the ill workers. The two-room building was…
Frank Caperton, Rutherford County Historical Society, October 29, 2016 Past RCHS President and Jefferson native Toby Francis gave a tour to a large group of local history enthusiasts Saturday, October 29. The weather was unusually warm yet we all enjoyed Toby’s tour of ‘Old Jefferson’. Toby Francis grew up in Jefferson. Toby’s…
RUTHERFORD COLLEGE 1870’s-1925 was located off the present 1-40 Buchanan exit and just south of the truck stop on Epps Mill Road. The school was first on the east side of the road on the farm of A. J. Todd, once the Howland farm where Estes Miles, former governor of…
CHRISTIANA SCHOOL 1908-1931 was located on the south side of the present Church Street, the main street in Christiana. On June 13, 1908, Charlie Anderson Gordon and wife sold to the Rutherford County Board of Education 1/2 acre with a house, formerly owned by R. O. Hale, for $500. The…
SALEM MALE ACADEMY 1837- may have been the school marked on the 1878 Beers Map at the intersection of Windrow Road and Salem Pike in District 12. Trustees of the school were: John S. Russwurm, James M. King, Elias King, Benjamin Johnson, Benjamin C. Ransom, John Rawson, and William Ledbetter.…
HUNT’S HILL SCHOOL late l800’s-1918, also called MUD DAUB and MUD COLLEGE, was on the south side of Hall’s Hill Road about one mile east of the Presbyterian and Christian Churches shown on the 1878 Beers Map. The name of William Hunt, who owned property along the road, is also…
EWINGSVILLE SCHOOL 1899-1925 or 1926 was on the North Milton Road just across the Rutherford County line in Wilson County. Students from both counties attended the school. EWINGSVILLE was first a one-teacher and then a two teacher school. Known teachers were Hannibal Jennings, Quixanna Cook, and Herman Rhodes. Maynard Knight…