Scotts Hill High School - Lion Yearbook (Scotts Hill, TN)

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Austin, J. G. (Gobe) Scott, W. D. Brown, A. L. Goff, J. W. and Wes Patterson, Charlie Austin, lessee Holmes, J. M. and Tom Brasher, and Jim McClanahan. The Farmers State Bank was organized in 1906 with P. Woodward Holmes as cashier. It grew from the start in assets, service and strength and in the confidence of the public and government officials. Our Year of Near Destruction” was 1917. On May 27, a tornado swept away the east end of town, and on October 16, ”The Great Blaze” took out all 12 business houses, the post office, barbershop, grist mill, and five residences. But the town wasn’t born to die so soon, and within months it was built back better; and within a few years the disasters were memories. Yet, in 1926, a second fire went through the east business district with much destruction. The first automobile here was a Model T Ford bought in 1914 by J. A. McClanahan. Within weeks, Drs. Keeton and Wylie had like cars. The first telephone service was installed by the Stantonville Telephone Company in 1906. Later the Peoples Telephone Company was organized for which W. A. Austin was the long manager. Monthly dues were 15 cents. Scotts Hill was incorporated in 1921 with Tom McKenzie as Mayor. Supplanting a few Delco home lighting plants, the first public electric service came to Scotts Hill in 1934. The first organized church was the Christian Church which in 1901 began to use the name of Church of Christ. The first meeting house was erected by men and boys in 1888 on the site of a later brick building, now the school’s Home Economics quarters. The present meeting house was erected in 1959-60 on the site of the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Wylie. Methodism began in this area mostly through efforts of Romulus S. Swift, an eminent evangelist who came here before the Civil War. In 1885-86 the congregation moved from Bethel to a small frame structure on the present site. In 1943-44 a pretty concrete building replaced the long frame structure which had supplanted the first small house in the 1890’s. The Holiness (Pentecost) Church had its beginning in 1915-16 after tent meetings. A house was the first meeting place but in 1917 a small frame house was erected on land given by the John Thompsons. In 1931 a new concrete black building replaced the small frame structure. The building was bricked in” and modernized a few years ago. The first organized Baptist Church, here came into existence in 1947 when right members began meeting in the home of the late Mrs. A. A. Tolley. A meeting house was completed in the 1950 ' s and in the past two years, the house has been enlarged and modernized. And so is and has been for 150 years, Scotts Hill, Tennessee. 13

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