Castlewood High School - Castletonian Yearbook (Castlewood, VA)

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The First High School This is Temple Hill High School built approximately in 1890. This is the first graduating class of Temple Hill High School (1921). They are Louise Paxton, Robin Dickenson, Stafford Fletcher, and Preston Clay. This is the faculty of Temple Hill High School (1921). FIRST ROW: Virginia Holland, Alise Hol- land, and Bertie Fisher. SECOND ROW: Olive Sho- maker Bolton and Miss Molly Dickenson. 9

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Vanishing Americana . . . The One-Room School We seldom see one now, but generations of capable, successful Americans learned their three R ' s in schools such as this. We have all read how Abraham Lincoln went to a log school and became President of the United-5utes. Dr. C.C. Fisher graduated from Emory and Henry College, cum laude, with the class of 1880. That following fall he accepted a position at Temple Hill School where he taught for two years. There he met his wife-to-be (Elizabeth Bickley Dickenson) when he obtained lodging at her father’s plantation. He boarded with the Dickensons for $5 a month, which included his room, board, and laundry. In 1886 Dr. Fisher was licensed by the Southern Methodist Church in Pikeville, Tennessee, as a minister. Later an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Kentucky Wes- ley College, Winchester, Kentucky. 8

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Milestones Of Progress In 1920 the first cornerstone was laid for a new wing to be added to Temple Hill High SchooL Perched on the stone are Lena Francisco Harding, who now resides in Castlewood with her son, Pitzer; Max Fields, who later became a doctor (deceased, June 17, 1935); Paul Fletcher, who now resides on his farm in Kinston, North Carolina; Thelma Meade Hancock, who teaches social studies at Castlewood High School; and Everette Harding, who is also a teacher in Virginia. This group made up the ninth grade at that time. Today our ninth grade enroll- ment is 181. The completion of the first wing of Temple Hill High School in 1921.