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Note: The information on the schools come from the Barren Co Board of Education as provided to former County Judge Executive Woody Gardner and Cecil Goode and Mr. Hatchett (see at the end). If they are in error, I do not know. Remember, there were consolidations of various schools before the 1956 consolidation.
Prior to school consolidation, there were 116 schools in Barren Co for whites and 24 known black schools. Each had an assigned # or alphabetical
designation. According to old historical records they were as follows:
| White Schools |
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| 1 - Sunnyside |
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| 2 - Clear Point (Dugantown) |
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| 3 - Shady Glen |
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| 4 - Green Plot |
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| 5 - Lee Seminary |
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| 6 - Monticello (Little Bethel) |
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| 7 - Cave City |
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| 8 - Highland (Old Jenny) |
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| 9 - Walnut Hill |
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| 10 - Union Hill |
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| 11 - Denton |
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| 12 - Carver (Railton) |
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| 13 - Buck Creek |
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| 14 - Finney (Grangetown) |
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| 15 - Rocky Hill |
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| 16 - Lucas |
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| 17 - Beech Grove |
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| 18 - Allen (Zion) |
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| 19 - Needmore |
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| 20 - Mount Zion (Duff's Branch) |
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| 21 - Little Richey (New Lebanon) |
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| 22 - Winn (Bruce) |
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| 23 - Moore |
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| 24 - Devasher (Smokey) |
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| 25 - Bewleytown |
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| 26 - Walnut Grove (Seed Tick) |
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| 27 - Capitol Hill |
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| 28 - Union |
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| 29 - Ellis |
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| 30 - Murray |
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| 31 - Lyon |
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| 32 - Millersburg |
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| 33 - Roseville |
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| 34 - Pitcock's |
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| 35 - Cedar Grove |
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| 36 - Oak Hill |
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| 37 - Bon Ayr |
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| 38 - Morrison Park (Bald Knob) |
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| 39 - Haywood |
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| 40 - Temple Hill |
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| 41 - Poplar Grove |
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| 42 - Rock Spring |
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| 43 - Poplar Spring |
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| 44 - Red Cross (Fairview) |
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| 45 - Holly Hill |
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| 46 - Cedar Hill (Yellow Dog, Self, Dickey) |
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| 47 - Park City (Glasgow Junction) |
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| 48 - Forest Seminary |
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| 49 - Oil CIty (Woodland Seminary) |
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| 50 - Dry Ridge |
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| 51 - Lick Branch (Kino) |
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| 52 - Wolf Island |
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| 53 - Eighty-Eight |
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| 54 - Vernon (Mount Vernon |
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| 55 - Bethel (Oleoak) |
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| 56 - Boyd's Creek |
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| 57 - Bluff Spring
(Possum Trot) |
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| 58 - Dry Hollow |
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| 59 - Laurel Bluff |
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| 60 - Vineyard (Vineyard Knob) |
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| 61 - Klienwood |
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| 62 - Mount Pleasant |
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| 63 - Beckton |
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| 64 - Tracy |
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| 65 - Arnett Grove |
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| 66 - Woods |
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| 67 - 73 unknown |
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| 74 - Hiseville |
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| 75 - Jefferson Seminary |
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| 76 - Owl Spring |
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| 77 - Bristletown |
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| 78 - none |
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| 79 - Goodnight (Rich Grove) |
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| 80 - Raymond Seminary |
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| 81 - Chestnut Grove |
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| 82 - not listed |
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| 83 - Coral Hill |
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| 84 - not shown |
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| 85 - Lincoln Seminary (Underwood's Chapel) |
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| 86 - not shown |
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| 87 - Antioch |
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| 88 - Browning |
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| 89 - not shown |
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| 90 - Etoile (Caney Fork) |
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| 91 - Sinking Grove |
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| 92 - 94 not shown |
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| 95 - Oak Grove |
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| 96 - not shown |
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| 97 - Black Walnut |
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| 98 - 102 not shown |
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| 103 - Mount Ayre |
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| 104 - Merry Oaks |
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| 105 - Pisgah |
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| 106 - South Fork |
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| 107 - not shown |
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| 108 - Fairview |
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| 109 - Cole's Bend |
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| 110 - Freedom |
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| 111 - not shown |
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| 112 - Slick Rock |
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| 113 - Dry Fork |
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| 114 - Austin |
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| 115 - Little Hope |
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| 116 - Amity |
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In 1903, the only year known the following were the blacks schools and teachers:
| School |
Teacher(s) |
| A - Glasgow |
C M Berry |
| B - Hiseville |
Martha Slaughter |
| C - Jacksonville |
John Davidson |
| D - Harlow's Chapel |
Joe Moran& W H Dunn |
| E - Walton Academy |
Mary S Wilson |
| F - Pleasant Oak Ridge |
Katie Baker |
| G - Horse Well (Little Kettle) |
H. C. LaRue |
| H - Cave City |
W.I Robinson |
| I - Glasgow Junction |
J E Bush and Lena G
Berry |
| J - Gum Springs (Slash) |
M.S. Maupin |
| K - Buck Creek |
Belle Nuckles |
| L - Rocky Hill |
Benjamin Twyman |
| M - Lucas |
Addie Green |
| N - Statenfield (Buck) |
Sadie Maueir |
| O - Chestnut Ridge |
None shown |
| P - Pleasant Union |
W.D. Whitney |
| S - Oak Grove |
S. C. B. Shannon |
| T - Boyd's Creek |
Nancy Martin |
| U - Queen's Chapel (White' Chapel) |
W.B. Smith |
| V - Bristeltown |
O.F. White |
| W - Duke |
Matilda Millett |
| X - Beckton |
Ella Cole |
| Y - Henrytown |
Alonzo Webb |
| Z - Temple |
Lizzie Wood |
Teachers and some other earlier schools and academies:
| Urania College, found 1835 and changed to Glasgow Academy. |
| Glasgow Academy, Glasgow - secondary school. John Rice Kerr and Hervie Woods, Richard P. Collins, Rev. W C Read. Presbyterian run school. Board of trustees included: B Mills Crenshaw, George W. Trabue, George Rogers, T L Bransford, Burwell Lawless, William Sampson and William E Mumford. This ran 1840's and 1850's. |
Urania College - name changed back 1858. Frank Lynford Morse and Samuel F. B. Morse ran school. This school was used as a hospital during the Civil
War. After the war, became a common school system. Alexander and Henry Crenshaw were teachers as well as James B. and Smith Winn. Closed 1874. |
| Replaced by the Normal School which closed in the 1890's. |
Glasgow Normal School. Began 7 Sept 1874. W A MELL opened the Urania Public
School and by 1875 wanted to start a normal school (teacher's school). He was assisted by Hattie ROGERS and Cora BYBEE. He was joined later by J. Tom WILLIAMS (manager), A. G. TAYLOR, Tom F McBEATH, A L PETERMAN, W NULL and Ida May WILLIAMS in 1883. This was the beginning of Western KY University. Other teachers/directors were J M STALLSWORTH, Ruric N ROARK, and wife, and D E KEACH; also by W H FRY. ROARK was succeeded by F M MALONE. J R ALEXANDER and H McD FLETCHER headed the Bowling Green branch. Teachers included R M SHIPP, Miss PARKE, Edna SMITH, R S EUBANK, E B TERRY and Lizzie Reading BAILEY. Due to many difficulties and battles, the school closed and Western KY University was born as a normal school in Bowling Green.
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| Blue Spring Seminary 1825-1830, on farm of Gabriel Ament between Hiseville and Park. Trustees were: Drury Roberts, Burwell Lawless, James Jameson, Elias Smith, William W Burks, James G. Hardy. Older students were later transferred to the Jefferson Seminary (shown tomorrow). Mitchell Daughtery replaced Lawless. |
Union School - Established possibly as early at 1815, a log school on the Cap Simmons farm near the Barren-Monroe Co line. Was on Spring Creek about 2 1/2 miles from Fountain Run. Moved before 1850 behind Union Church on the Jake Goodman farm. Then moved about 1880 1/4 mile away on the
Glasgow-Fountain Run Road. When the schools consolidated in 1946 its students became enrolled at the Austin-Tracy Elementary school. No teachers' names available. |
| Pisgah School. On Glover's Creek between Bewleytown and Capitol Hill early 1800's. Was first a private school, then public. Sometime around WW I it closed and students absorbed into other districts. No teacher names known. |
| The General Robert E. Lee Seminary, private school after the Civil War on the SW corner of the intersection of the current Whitney Woods Road and Barren Co Road 685. An earlier school, Bethesda was thought to have preceded this school at the same location. |
| There were 4 Nunnally sisters who taught in Eighty-Eight (Barren), Metcalfe, Cumberland and Nelson Co at the turn of the century. Melinda Ann (Mrs. Joe Gaddis), Lue Settie (Mrs. William HenryMoore); Luary Oberria (Mrs. Leo Gentry) and Lydia America (Mrs. Walter Mack Word). |
Amity Seminary: There was a famous tavern called McCown Inn at the"Crossroads" - the intersection of the Glasgow-Munfordville Road and the Old Lexington Road. To the east on the opposite side of the Old Lex. Road stood Amity Seminary - an elementary school. Henry Parrish was the trustee;
an early teacher was Rev. S. Myra Gaines. George T. Parrish was hired in 1870. Other teachers were Elizabeth W. Watts, a Ms. Meade, Ms. Page, Rev.
W. S. Doyle, Emma Smite, Carrie Kirtley, E. B. Terry, Kate White, Verta Palmore and Jennie Parrish. |
Mount Mary's Academy. Stephen A. COLLIER taught school at Bear Wallow in the 1850's and 60's assisted by a Mr. SMITH. Since Collier was a Union
sympathizer, after the Civil War began, he closed the school. He rented a building on the east side of the Glasgow-Bardstown Road (31E) and opened
Mount Mary's. His wife taught as did Emma C. GANTER (music). The school was closed during the later war years.
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Glasgow Male and Female Institute, organized 1865 by Rev. Caleb W. SEWELL, an elder of the Christian church. On East Main Street between what is now Lewis Street and Morgan St. Mrs. M K HARDY, Miss Mary READER and Miss KERR
taught there. |
| Baptist Female College of Liberty Association. Formed 1872 included Rev. Nathaniel Gorin TERRY. Promoted by Gov Peston H LESLIE (from Glasgow), Major Christopher T CHEEK and S E JONES. Christopher TOMPKINS house was proposed for the site in 1874 but to a typhoid fever outbreak in the area, it was opened at the site where Mariah EVERETT lived on the hill SE of the town square on. James H. FUQUA from Russellville was put in charge of the school, assisted by 4 unnamed women teachers. FUQUA was succeeded by Dr. J. B. REYNOLDS. Dr. GARDNER was a professor of theology. In 1882, E W ELROD and John P FRUIT became co-presidents. T S McCALL was the next president. Dr. James M BRENT succeeded him. Rev. J M BRUCE pastor of Glasgow Baptist Church, assumed his duties - went co-ed in abt 1891. H J GREENWOOD succeeded him, succeeded by Dr. Robert E HATTON. |
Glasgow Common Schools:
1866- housed at Main Cross Street (Broadway) and East Washington St across from the Presbyterian Church - now where the A. F. Crow & Son Funeral Home is located. Rev. Larkin TURNER was superintendent; succeeded by W E HUNTER, then by W H FRY. Minnie GARDNER, Bettie BYBEE, Rose BYBEE, Sallie PACE and Mollie WOOD taught. Next super was Mr. BARCLAY, then William Carr TURNER. The old location was then sold (school location became a hotel), and they bought the Urania College Bldg on North Race St. Under TURNER, Henry COOMBS, C C PARE and J T CURRIE assisted. Edwin Burch TERRY replaced TURNER. Teaching staff then included Miss Mollie WOOD, Miss Rose BYBEE, Mrs W C TURNER, Miss Bettie BYBEE, Miss Jenne GILL, Miss Jennie PARRISH and E B TERRY.
In 1907 board was made up of Theo GOLDNAMER, William P. COOMBS, J Lewis WILLIAM, J C HUTCHERSON and Howe RALSTON. E B TERRY retired 1924 and was succeeded by Richard Alsop PALMORE. In 1932, R A PALMORE was appointed, succeeded by William H SUGG (until 1937), and was replaced by James W DEPP.
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| Vineyard School: Eastern part of the countynorth of the Glasgow-Edmonton Road. Trustees were Robert REYNOLDS, Henry C BOWLES and E W BOWLES. Joseph E NEWBERRY was clerk and William C GOODEN a teacher. |
| Cleveland Seminary opened during the 1880's on the west side of the Glasgow-Munfordville Road, named for Pres. Cleveland. It succeeded the Salem School where Jesse P MURRELL, Nathan Gorin TERRY and Daniel BRUCE had taught. George T PARRISH ran this school and was succeeded by Miss Ida KIRTLEY. |
| Sinking Spring School. John H BEALS was on the Board here in 1877. Later a man named HIRAM HUDSON (note!) approached him to teach there - he was from MO. It was agreed that if HUDSON could get 30 students, Hudson could open a school. He only ended up with 24 students and later moved the school's location to near Oil City. He taught there 3 terms and was highly respected. He then resigned and moved back to MO. It was later that the citizens of the area learned that Hiram HUDSON was in fact Frank JAMES, brother of Jesse JAMES. |
Ratliff Industrial Institute and Teacher's Normal School. Opened in the 1920 by black businessman Steve Landrum in Glasgow for a black elementary and secondary school. It opened in 1926 on South Lewis St in Glasgow - co-educational with boarding. The first principal was Mr. RATLIFF. It closed in 1920.
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| Park City Schools. Appears that there was a school on the Mammoth Cave Road a mile north of Three Forks (now Park City) about 1840 near "Song Knob." A public school succeeded there much later named Fairview which closed in 1878. A new public school opened in 1879 near the Baptist Church. In 1884 the school was held over the Union Church; in 1888 it was moved a blocks outh of the church. In 1910 Glasgow Junction's public school (also Park City now) opened (began 1911). Glasgow Junction, Walnut Hill, Union Hill and Monticello were consolidated into this. |
| Hiseville Schools: Between 1845-47 there was a school one mile east of Hiseville on the farm later owned by William JONES. It was called Terrapin Point. Harriett PETTY was a teacher there. In 1856/7 a new school district was formed. After the Civil War the Hiseville Common School was organized on the south side of KYHwy 70, one block west of the intersection of the Hiseville-Coral Hill road. In 1934 the Hisevillle Consolidated School became part of the county school system and absorbed the students from Coral Hill, Mount Zion, Kleinwood, Sunnyside (Rock Spring), Amity, Goodnight, Lincoln Seminary, Owl Spring and Vineyard. |
Lucas: A school was held here after the Civil War taught byMiss Jane MANSFIELD who was succeeded by Samuel MORSE, a brother of the president off Urania College in Glasgow. It was consolidated into the Austin-Tracy Consolidated High School in 1934.
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Austin-Tracy: 9 July 1928 saw the opening of the Austin High School. Finney School opened as a high school in 1929. In 1933, these two schools plus one at Lucas were consolidated into the Austin-Tracy High School, between Austin and Tracy on Hwy 87. These also consolidated the elementary schools at Capitol Hill, Union, Walnut Grove, Needmore, Winn, Moore and Lucas. Devasher School came into in 1948. The school then moved to its current location 1/2 mile north of Austin.
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| Temple Hill School: Reverted to an elementary and junior high in 1973, this school operated the longest. It became a 3-year high school in 1928; and in 1933 moved to its new building. |
| Baulch Junior School for Boys. A private school operated in 1947 in the former Mentz Hotel in Park City. It was was owned and oeprated by Ernie and Nellie BAULCH and James and Madie BAUCH. The headmaster was Ernest BAULCH. It was a semi-military boarding school for grades 1 thru 8. It closed in 1952. |
Commissioners & Superintendents of Barren Co. Schools
1841-44 William McFERREN, B Mills CRENSHAW, William E MUNMFORD
1845-48 William McFERREN, B Mills CRENSHAW, B N CRUMP
1849-A WATKINS, William GARNETT, William ELLIS
1850 William E MUMFORD
1851William E MUMFORD
1852-53 Burwell LAWLESS
1854-55 James W SCRIVENER, Travis COCKRILL, B F DICKEY
1856-62 W F EVANS
1863-67 J M ANDERSON
1867-84 No record
1884-86 Joe W DICKEY (M.D.)
1886-88 Richard P COLLINS
1888-92 W H GORE
1892-1902 George T. PARRISH
1902-14 William Carr TURNER
1914-18 Nettie B DEPP
1918-36 William M TOTTY
1936-37 James W DEPP
1937-45 W. Maxwell RITTER
1945-46 N Wilson BURKS
1946-58 Mitchell DAVIS
1958-60 J Lee ROBERTSON
1960-63 Mitchell DAVIS
1963-67 Leslie LEACH
1967 Walton LUTTRELL
1967-69 James W DEPP
1969-73 Edwin HICKEY
1973-75 Cornell C. CLARK
1975 -Darrell FLORENCE |
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