HomeMy WebLinkAboutDSC_0112SCHOOL HISTORY
by
C. A. Bonnen
President, School Board
The history of your school is one of continuous and rapid progress.
It is closely entwined with the history of A & M College. Cnly brief
snatches of its early history are available in the fading memory of old
timers.
Visualize if you can a tutor system during the early years of the College;
perhaps a privately operated school for a few years, the creation of the
A & M College Independent School District which was limited to the campus,
and the operation of a one -teacher public school in the old railroad depot
on the site where Guion hall now stands.
Modern history began in 1920 when the Rock Prairie Union Hill and
Wellborn districts agreed to pool their resources with the College district
for instruction at the high school level. The stucco building now used
by the College for a music hall was built at that time. Shortly thereafter
four classrooms were added.
Subsequent highlights were as follows:
1. In 1926 the A & M Consolidated Independent School District
was created, combining the four districts.
2. The high school was moved to Pfeuffer Hall in the early thirties.
3. A new school plant including the present junior high building, the
shop and music room and fourteen elementary classrooms was built and the
school removed from the campus on February 1, 1940. Local residents
raised over 45,000 by subscription to purchase the present school site.
4. The gymnasium at Consolidated and the main building at Lincoln
school were added in 1942.
5. The present high school building and a four -room building at Lincoln
school were added in 1949.
6. The Peach Creek and Minter Springs districts were added to the
District in 1949 under provisions of the Gilmer -Aiken School Law. -
7. The cafeteria and six new classrooms at the elementary school and a
shop and science room at the Lincoln school were added in 1951.
8. A new fourteen room high school unit and auditorium will be ready for
use in September 1954.
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