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…
LAWRENCE CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK 1898-1936, was located between Salem and Windrow. It was on the north side of Windrow Road just before Windrow Hill and behind the John Haynes’ house. It was in the vicinity of LEATHERS SCHOOL. On August 17, 1898, W. T. Haynes and wife N. A. deeded…
SALEM SCHOOL before 1898-1932 was on the south side of State Road 99, west of the intersection of the present Armstrong Valley Road. William Rufus Jarratt, b. 1848, gave the land for this school before his son was born in 1898. SALEM SCHOOL was a frame building of two rooms…
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.…
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.…
SALEM ACADEMY or SEMINARY 1887-1902 was on the north side of the Salem Road just east of the intersection of that road and the present Kimbro Road. On June 30, 1887, William H. Windrow and Frazier Kimbro sold for $50 each a parcel of land consisting of one acre each.…