Southmont High School - Yearbook (Southmont, NC)

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TEMPGRARY OCCUPANTS 1915 1917 I 'Tl1.TlTl'II ' X 5 1916 ,Q N? 9 4

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SOME OLD BUILDINGS I-IAVE A LIFE OF THEIR OWN. g ' A 4,... M+ Tfi 'k Q L, I Q5 K- .,'- X .5 . 'wwf Before 1914, children at Southmont attended one-room schoolhouses set up in temporary quarters throughout the area. In 1913, the citizens of the community, desiring to provide the best available educational opportunities for their children, carried a local tax election of thirty cents on the hundred dollars property valuation. This tax was passed as the result of a hard and bitter struggle waged by public-spirited citizens, led by school committeemen J. D. Lookabill, C. D. Wrenn, and S. M. Peacock. Revenue from the special tax financed the construction of a two story frame building at the intersection of the Southmont- Linwood and Cotton Grove Roads. The building, painted red, was known as the Red Schoolhouse and was, for its time, probably the finest rural public school building in Davidson County. First used during the 1914- 1915 school year, the Red Schoolhouse contained grades one through ten. In 1924, the school having outgrown its building, an election for a bond issue of 320,000 was carried. This amount was supplemented by another 320,000 from the county, and the present brick building, containing ten classrooms, an auditorium, a library, and Principal's office, and with steam heat and electric lights, was erected on a slight knoll on the same grounds behind the Red Schoolhouse. The school district was immediately enlarged by the addition of the Oak Grove and Arey School districts, each of these having been voted in as local tax districts. In 1929, the Floyd and Pine Knot School districts were added, completing consolidation according to the county-wide plan of grouping. The school is, and has been since 1926, a standard school. 3

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-QQ' 1921 1922 1924 1921