April 20, 2020, The Daily News Journal, Susan Harber Riverside, also known as the Pierce-Randolph House, was built in 1830 and is a treasure on West Jefferson Pike in Walter Hill. The Riverside Farm has been listed on the National Historic Places since 2006. Beverly Randolph Drive is a current…
GREENWOOD SCHOOL, sometimes called SEED TICK 1878-c 1922, in the old fifth and new first District was first on a farm owned by Caleb Swain on Lamar Road about one mile north of the present Jefferson Pike. It was near the Fall Creek. GREENWOOD SCHOOL was next located about one-half…
TAYLOR SCHOOL 1874-1911 was a district school on the north side of Columbia Road, now Mt. Pleasant Road, about one half mile west of the intersection of that road and Hant Hollow Road. On August 4, 1874, Nathaniel R. Taylor, son of Vincent Taylor, signed a gift deed to the…
KEEBLE SCHOOL c1860-1863, was located in the community of Jefferson. A journal kept by Bettie Ridley Blackmore recorded in a March 1893 entry: “The Keeble school was burnt by Federal troops.” SOURCES: Bettie Ridley Blackmore, “Journal,” TheTennessee Historical Quarterly, March 1953, XII, no. 1. *Gene Sloan, “Jefferson Probably Had County’s…
MILTON SEMINARY or MILTON MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY 1857-1956 is shown on the Beers Map of 1878. It was on the northeast corner of State Road 96 and the North Milton Road. By 1850 William Byrn, Green Byrn, and Enoch Jones contracted with the Rev. Jared Warren, a Baptist preacher…
EAGLEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1915-1923 was moved in 1915 to its present location on the south side of State Road 99 and about one-fourth mile east of its intersection with 41A. On July 22, 1912, J. E. Sullivan and wife Emma, J. D. Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, and H. W. Sullivan had…
TRIMBLE SCHOOL 1893-c 1918 was on Trimble Road which runs north off Hall’s Hill Pike. The school was on the west side of the road and south of the Trimble Cemetery. On July 29k, 1893, D. H. Sneed and wife M. E. Sneed deeded land to School Directors George C.…
STROOP SCHOOL 1881-1918 was between the Hall’s Hill and Milton Roads. It was north of Trimble Road at the southwest intersection of Hudson and Overall Roads and near the Jones and Vaught Cemeteries. On September 7, 1881, James Landrum Stroop deeded 132 poles of land to School Directors J. Williams,…
December 30, 2019, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal The name Jarman has a pre-9th Century Old French origin and is interpreted in Latin as the baptismal name ‘Germanus’ or German. In ancient history, Jarman was first recorded in a family crest in Suffolk, England before the Norman Conquest of…
SALEM SCHOOL BLACK 1940 was on the east side of Kimbro Road and about one mile south of the Salem Road. The schoolhouse was a frame building with two rooms. Among the teachers were Catherine Jackson, Ollie B. Officer, Lillian Hammons, and Willa Morton Kimbro Foster. Picola Smith taught sewing…