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HISTORY OF THE EDGEWOOD SCHOOL PRIOR TO THE COMING OF THE RAILROAD THROUGH THIS SECTION IN 1873, THERE WAS N0 NEED OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL SINCE THE POPULA- TION CONSISTED OF THREE FAMILIES, SLAUGH- TER's, CARTwRIGHT's AND SIMPSON'S BUT AFTER PIONEERS BEGAN TO THEN PROVISION WAS MADE OF CHILDREN. SETTLE IN EDGEWOOD, FOR THE EDUCATION THE FIRST SCHOOL WAS THAT HAD BEEN USED AS A THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LOCATED ONE MILE EAST OF TOWN TENNIE DODSON HOMESTEAD THE A CATHOLIC PRIEST NAMED BURNS PICTURESQUE FIGURE AS HE WENT N A LOG BUILD CDMMISSARY DURING RAILROAD, AND WAS NEAR THE OLD TEACHER WAS HE WAS ABOUT ON HORSEBACK, D ESSED IN HIS RDBES WITH A LONG BLACK BEARD REACHING TO HIS HE NOT ONLY KEPT THE SCHOOL, BUT FUNERAL AND MARRIAGE SERVICES AS THE NEXT SCHOOL WAS TAUGHT IN WHERE THE EDGEWOOD LUMBER COMPANY STANDS IT HAD A LARGE FIREPLACE WHICH THE CHILDREN SAT ON BENCHES WAIST PERFORMED WELL A BUILDI NOW AROUND WITH MANY A LITTLE FOOT DANCLING FAR FROM THE FLOOR THIS WAS ABOUT 1880 THE TEACHER WAS NAMED BARTLETTS THE NEXT HDUSE USED WAS THE METHODIST CHURCH, ON THE LOT NOW BELONGING TO MRS W H HUMPHRIES IN THE MEANTIME A THICKLY SETTLED COMMUNITY HAD SFRUNG UP ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF SOUTHWEST OF TOWN, AND THE SCHOOL WAS TRANSFERREO TO THE SLAUCHTER SCHDDLHDUSE LOCATED NEAR THE PRESENT SAM JONES HOMESTEAD MISS EMMA CULLEN WAS THE TEACHER AND DEARLY LovED BY ALL THE PUPILS IN A SHORT TIME THE SCHOOL WAS MOVED BACK TO EDGEWOOD T0 THE SAME METHODIST CHURCH PRESIDING OVER THE YOUNG IN THOSE YEARS WERE HILLARY WHATLEY, H D JOHNSON, AND MAMIE COWLES. PAYNE, A O AS THE TOWN GREW, ANOTHER BUILDING MUCH MORE PRETENTIOUS WAS ERECTED ON THE LOT DIRECTLY WEST OF WHERE THE METHODIST FAR SONAGE NOW STANDS THEN INDEED DID THE CITIZENS OF EDGEWOOD POINT THEIR SCHOOL BUILDING, FOR WITH PRIDE IT HAD T O ROOMS AND A HALLWAY DOWNSTA RS, AND WAS CONCEALED, ACCORDING TO UNANIMOUS LIEF AMONG THE CHILDREN TH S WAS IN 1 98 ONE OF THE PROFESSORS FIRST PRESIDING WAS A B CHAPPELL, NOTED FAR STERN DISCIPLINE ALONG ABOUT 1903 A WING THE DvERFLoNING ROOMS, ONE A D WIDE FOR HIS WAS ADDED TO DOWNSTAIRS AND ONE ABOVE WHICH COULD BE REACHED ONLY BY WINDING STEPS ON THE OUTSI ND BALCONY IN THE DAYS OF ROMEO AND JULIET WAS MORE FITTING FOR ROMANCE THAN THIS STAIRWAY AS IT STOOD SHADED BY A GIANT RED OAK THIS WAS THE TIME WHEN FRIDAY AFTERNOON LITERARY SOCIETIES FLOURISHED, AND FOND PARENTS YISITED THE SCHOOL TO SEE THEIR CHILDREN PERFORM MR ONENS AND MR CAR TON WERE TEACHERS IN THE NEW ANNEX, FOLLOW BY R EL THESE WERE THE DAYS OF SCHOOL EXHIBITIONS AND IN THIS ART MR ELLIS AND HIS WIFE WERE UNEXCELLED DRAM ATIC TALENT FOUND EXPRESSION IN DIALOGUES MONOLOGUES, PLAYS, RECITATIDNS, AND HOW THE ENTIRE POPULATION FOR MILES AROUND WOULD COME TO THESE PERFORMANCES ANYTHING WAS ATTEMPTED FROM BLACKFACE COMEDIES TO STARR TRAGEDY AMONG THOSE DUTSTANDINC IN THIS WORK NERE JDE P DDNNS AND HIS SISTER HETTIE SOME OF THE TEACHERS WERE E.M. CHREST- MAN, MISS JENKINS, MISS MALONEQ JOHN KIDD CAME NEXT AS SUPERINTENDENT, AND HIS WAS THE FIRST CLASS TO GRADUATE AND SECURE DIP- LOMAS Two WERE IN THE CLASS, BESSIE SIMMONS AND HOPE SLAUGHTER SOME OF THE TEACHERS WERE JOHN STARNFORD, JANE MCNAIR WHO LATER MARRIED HER PUPIL WAXIE JAMES MAUD QUINLAN, AND MARTHA JONES WHO MARRIED LESLIE SLAUGHTER, ALSO A TEACHER IN THE SCHOOL OTHERS FOLLOWING THESE NERE MR DEAN W H NEILL, P M CHANCELLOR, LILLIE BROOKS AND ADDLFH MACHOTKA IT WAS DURING THE TERM OF CRANFIL Cox THAT THE DREAM OF YEARS BEGAN TO MATERIALIZE INTO A NEW BUILDING THIS ENERGETIC YOUNG TEACHER LAUNCHED A MODERN PROGRAM FOR THE SCHOOL BY INSTITUTING COMMENCEMENT, AND HIS WAS THE FIRST CLASS TO WEAR CAPS AND CDNNS AT THEIR GRADUATION WHICH WAS IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH. THIS BUILDING BURNED AND WHILE ANOTHER WAS BEING ERECTED SCHOOL WAS HELD IN THE CHURCHES AND OTHER BUILDINGS IN TOWN. TEACHERS OF THOSE TIMES WERE ANNIE LEE SMART, LORENE FOSTER, FLORENCE PERRY, AND E F BARNES DEBATING SOCIETIES WERE AS MUCH THE STYLE AS FOOTBALL IS NOW WHEN A DEBATE WAS ANNOUNCED THE AUDITORIUM WAS FILLED TO DVERFLDNING B F TUNNELL BECAME SUPERINTENDENT THE SECOND BRICK BUILDING,AND UNDER HIM ATHLETICS BEGAN TO BLDSSDM A GENERAL OWNERSHIP OF CARS Now GAvE TRANSPORTATION T0 COUNTY MEETS, AND SCHOOL PRIDE DEVELOP UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP THE SCHOOL WAS CLASSIFIED AS A HIGH SCHOOL AND APPLICATION FOR CREDITS BEGAN THIS wAS DURING THE WORLD WAR AND A PALL OF SADNESS FELL DvER THE SCHOOL AS SOME OF THE YOUNG TEACHERS wENT AWAY TO THE ARMY CALAMITY AGAIN THREATENED THE BUILDING F RE BUT EFFOR S D CITIZENS SAv D FROM COMPLETE DESTRUCTICN TEACHERS AT THAT TIME WERE DOVIE BARBER wHD BECAME MRS J E HUMPHRIES, JOSEPHINE LAIRD, OCTAVIA WERDEN, MRS TUNNELL, AND JULIA MACHDTKA J N MDSELY WAS SUPERINTENDENT IN 1 9 1920, HULSE THE NEXT YEAR, AND A LER FROM 1922 1926, WHO BROUGHT THE SCHDDL FAR ALONG TOWARD A MODERN ACCREDITED SCHOOL UNDER THE QUIET AND EFFICIENT LEADER SHIP OF S O LOVING SINCE 1926 THE SCHOOL MARCHED STEADILY FORWARD UNTIL NOW IT 23g CREDITS AND 13 TEACHERS. NDT ONLY THE SCHOOL WEATHERED THE DEPRESSION, NOW DARES TO EXPAND. A MODERN SCHOOL PLANT WITH A HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING OF 12 ROOMS AND AUDITORIUM, AND A GRADE SCHDDL BUILDING HAS BEEN PLANNED CONSOLIDATION AND Bus TRANSPORTATION HAS INCREASED THE ENROLLMENT TO 380 PUPILS A PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN DRGANIZED DURING HIS TERM AND THOSE SERV ING AS PRESIDENTS SINCE ITS BEGINNING HAVE EN MESDAMES J L BOUNDSI I L ELA I CHEATHAM, AND J E HUMPHRIES HAS HAS HAS BUT BY MRS R B CHEATH M PRESENTED THROUGH COURTESY LOCAL P T A 1 F ' I I ING ' D , . . . . , . A - R NG ' I I . . IN . ED. . BY I , T F E IT TO 0 N I A MA- . . . SONIC LODGE ROOM UPSTAIRS, WHERE THE BGOATN KATHLEEN TAYLDR, MRS. FORD, MARIE OLIVER, BE- . . I 8 . . . . 91 - . . N .P. Fow- DE. I ED .l. LIS. - L , BE . . . . M R.B. . . . . A
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