Copyright 2005 by Donald Allen and Elizabeth Robertson

HELP WANTED:

NEED HELP IN LOCATING OLD SCHOOL RECORDS including pictures, list of students, years the school was open, etc.

It is claimed that the first FREE SCHOOL in Georgia was located in Tallapoosa, GA.

At one time, schools were established in neighborhoods provided sufficient enrollment was available.  These were mostly one room schools and were often taught by young people in the community.  These schools were located within walking distance for the students since there were no 'buses' as we know them today.

The population was not as mobile as it is today.  The people were born and raised in a community, went to school together in the community, worshiped in the community and in one of the pictures, I can identify five couples that married and themselves raised a family in the same community.

Over the years schools have been consolidated, new schools built and the older schools torn down.  We would like to build a data base of these OLD SCHOOLS and include names of students attending the schools.  If you have a picture, or information on any schools in Haralson County that no longer exist, please contactLiz Robertson or Donald Allen.

BERNER SCHOOL, about 1905

BUNCOMBE SCHOOL 1932

CORINTH SCHOOL 1908

DRAKETOWN BAPTIST INSTITUTE 1909

FAIRMONT SCHOOL 1909

LIBERTY HILL SCHOOL 1911
LIBERTY HILL SCHOOL 1916

PLEASANT GROVE SCHOOL 1907
PLEASANT GROVE SCHOOL 1910

STEADMAN SCHOOL 1915-1920's

TALLAPOOSA HIGH SCHOOL CIRCA 1915 on line

WESLEY CHAPEL SCHOOL Circa 1938

PLEASANT HILL SCHOOL    Located on Jacksonville Rd. near the Alabama line in the Pleasant Hill West community. 
 

UNION SCHOOL - 1914 -  Location unknown.  Please advise if you have any information on this school or can identify anyone in the photograph.

WILDCAT SCHOOL CIRCA 1910

WILDCAT SCHOOL 1912

Special thanks to Dr. Terrell McBrayer for supplying the

following  partial list of closed Haralson County Schools (not all were one room schools).
 

The below list of CLOSED HARALSON COUNTY SCHOOLS is donated by Dr. Terrell McBrayer. The list was compiled by Dr. McBrayer from several sources, including HARALSON COUNTY, A HISTORY, 1983 by Mrs. Lois Newman; Haralson’s Historical Highlights, by Mary Tolleson.

Name of School, Date of Operation, Location

ADAMS (Black School in Bremen on Mt. Zion St.)
BEECH CREEK
BEREA Around 1900 thru 1930s Near Intersection of Jacksonville Rd. and Steadman Rd.
BETHANY
BUDAPEST
BUNCOMBE
CARVER
CHANDLERS CHAPEL GA. HWY 100 Near intersection of Jacksonville Rd.
COALSON
CORINTH (UNION) *SEE PICTURE ABOVE
COUNTY LINE
DISTRICT LINE
DRAKETOWN *SEE PICTURE ABOVE
DRIVERS
EAVES ACADEMY
EBENEZER
FAIRMOUNT  *SEE PICTURE ABOVE
FAIRVIEW
FELTON
FLATWOODS
FRAISURES CHAPEL
HOLLAND
LIBERTY
LINEVILLE
LITTLE CREEK
LIZARD LOPE
LONG VIEW
MANNS
MCKINNEYS SCHOOL (Also called Chigger Ridge) Old Edwardsville Rd. N. of Steadman Rd. (Also Easom Hill)
MIDWAY
MORGAN SCHOOL
MT VERNON
MT. MCKINLEY
MT. TABOR, So. of Pleasant Hill Methodist Church, Near I-20 and Hwy 100 exit.
MT. VIEW
MT. ZION WEST Across the road from Mt. Zion West Baptist Church
MT. ZION EAST
NEW CANAAN
NITRA, NEAR WACO
PERRYMAN
PHILADELPHIA
PINE GROVE
PINE KNOT Operated during the fruit growing project in Steadman community
PINEY WOODS
PLEASANT HILL Jacksonville Rd. near Alabama line
POPLAR SPRINGS 1890 or before Three different locations, Last location Poplar Springs Rd. at Hwy 100. This was a two story school at last location.
POSEY SPRINGS
POSEYVILLE
RED TOP
REIDS CHAPEL
RIVERSIDE Near Riverside Baptist Church
SINGAMORE
SMITH’S SCHOOL E. of Jacksonville Rd. near where old Mt. Zion Rd. enters Steadman Rd. on property once owned by William F. Smith who died ca 1845
STEDMAN SCHOOL (Successor to Pine Knot)
TALLAPOOSA EAST
TUMLIN NR. HCMS
VICTORY
WACO
WESLEY CHAPEL Also known as Verner School
WESSON SCHOOL
WILD CAT Before 1900-Closed 1917 Old Poplar Springs Rd.

The following were other early schools in Haralson County:

BUCHANAN ACADEMY 1844
ST. AGNES SEMINARY An Episcopal School
SUNNYSIDE INSTITUTE
TALLAPOOSA MALE AND FEMALE COLLEGE 1887
TALLAPOOSA FIRST FREE SCHOOL IN THE STATE’
DRAKETOWN BAPT. INST.
HAMILTON COLLEGE OF BREMEN
DRAKETOWN BAPT. INST.
HAMILTON COLLEGE OF BREMEN

 

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