KNOXVILLE AND KNOX COUNTY SCHOOLS BEFORE 1950

Compiled by Ron Allen

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Following is a list of the majority of the schools that are known to have been in existence in Knoxville or Knox County before the year 1950. This includes not only public schools, but private and parochial schools. This is not intended as a complete list of all schools that existed in the city and county from the earliest times until 1950. However, many of those schools are listed here, including some that are seldom mentioned elsewhere. In fact, Knoxville city directories and Knox County school reports issued during the early twentieth century reveal that sometimes there were as many as twice the number of schools in Knox County as were listed in those publications. Approximately three hundred and seventy-five schools have been identified. This information was found in Knoxville city directories, local early newspaper articles, city and county school reports, and old maps of Knoxville and Knox County. Much of this information is taken from the enlarged edition of my book, KNOX-STALGIA. Occasionally listed here are such institutions as dancing schools and singing schools, and while including those schools may appear to be inappropriate to purists, it is nonetheless a fact that some of today's public schools are being referred to as "performing arts" academies, thus it hardly seemed to be a stretch so include such schools on this list.

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ACADEMIA SCHOOL. East Knox County. The Academia School is shown on the 1895 Knox County map by Pill and Nicholson, located about two and one-half miles west of Mascot and two miles southwest of Skaggston. The school was still in existence in 1913, being listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

AMHERST SCHOOL. A county elementary school, on Amherst Road. Constructed as a WPA project in 1936. The school closed in 1973.

ANDERSON SCHOOL. A county elementary school, on Prospect Road. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. Photo circa 1930.

MRS. ANDERSON'S SCHOOL. A school that was advertised in the Knoxville Intelligencer, on January 31^st, 1823 to open in Knoxville, The location was stated to be near the Methodist meeting house, and described as a school "for the education of young ladies". The school was obviously in operation, although the duration is not known, but it is known to have operated at least for a couple of years, as the Intelligencer later reported on December 6^th, 1824, the next session of the school would open in January, 1825.

ISAAC ANDERSON SCHOOL. North Knox County is recorded as having been the location of this school, on what now is Murphy Road, near Tazewell Pike. Originally established and operated by Isaac Anderson, who later established the South Western Seminary in Maryville, now Maryville College. The Isaac Anderson school was later called the Woodland Academy.

ANTIOCH SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, located in the Skaggston area.

ARMINDA SCHOOL. The Arminda School is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about a mile northeast of the MacMillan community. The school continued in operation for much of the twentieth century.

ARMSTRONG HIGH SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in the 1907 Knox County Second District Public School report. Located in the Park City community. The school closed, was extensively renovated, and reopened as the Park City High School.

ARMSTRONG CHAPEL SCHOOL. A Knox County school for African American students, listed in the 1906-1907 Knox County Second District Public School report.

ASBURY SCHOOL. A school is shown in the Asbury community on the 1895 Knox County map. It is still listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

ASBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A county school, on Asbury School Road. Opened circa 1938.

AUSTIN SCHOOL / AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL. A city school for black children, opened around 1879. Financed through funds obtained by Miss Emily Austin from Philadelphia and Miss Isa E. Gray from Boston, primarily through contributions from citizens in Northern states. The funds were used to complete the school building and the city agreed there would be no tuition charge. In 1883, there were 318 students at the Austin School, also called the Austin High School. The school was originally located at 327 Central avenue, on the west side, between Commerce and Union. In 1915, the building was abandoned, pupils were transferred to the Green School. and that school was renamed the Austin High School, or Colored High School. Austin High School's 1908 commencement was held at Staub's Theater. Most references refer to the earlier schools merely as the Austin School, but it was also called the Austin High School. When the new Colored High School was built on Vine in 1928, it was also called the Austin High School, and the Green School again took its original name.

BAKER HIMEL SCHOOL. Founded by Lewis M. G. Baker and C.M. Himel in 1889, it was also called the University School. Upon completion of studies here, students were provided with certificates that entitled them to admittance, without the usual examinations, to U. T., the State College of Kentucky, and other institutions. The Baker Himel school closed in 1913.

BALL CAMP SCHOOL. In the Ball Camp community. Originally a one room school house, existing during (and possibly before) the Civil War. A newer frame building was constructed in 1889. That school is shown on the 1895 Knox County map. A new school building was built in 1953, across from the original location.

BEARDEN HIGH SCHOOL. Kingston Pike. A county school. The school existed in the early twentieth century. The school was similar to several other area schools in those years, when all classes from the first grade through the high school level (then the ninth or tenth grade) were taught, thus the designation as a "high school" was sometimes used.

BEARDEN SCHOOL. A school for African American children, located on Lyons View Pike. Children in the African American Lyons View community attended school here, although that black community was originally known as Bearden.

BEARDSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. A city school for black students. Opened in 1936, on 1901 College Street, at the northeast corner of Reynolds, north of Western. Originally called the Mechanicsville School, and still listed under that name in the 1939 city directory. By 1944, the name had been changed to Beardsley Junior High School.

BEAUMONT SCHOOL. Located originally n the city of North Knoxville, in the Beaumont community. Originally called the Beaumont Avenue School, this became a city school in 1917 when Beaumont became a part of the city. The school was at the same location as the present school.

BEAVER RIDGE SCHOOL. In the Beaver Ridge community. A school is reported in some sources to have been located in this area since the early nineteenth century, in various formats and sizes. This school is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, and is listed in local newspapers as participating in the Knox County educational rally in 1913.

BEECH GROVE SCHOOL. The Beech Grove School, in the Beech Grove community, is shown on the 1895 Knox County map. The school is also listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

BELL HOUSE SCHOOL. A city school, originally operated in what had been the Bell House Hotel building, In 1882, classes One through Ten were offered at the school, the top level of education being usually the same as at other area schools at that time. The building eventually became unsound and was demolished in 1897, and a new school building was built at the same site.

BELLE MORRIS SCHOOL. A grammar school located on Washington Pike. The new school building was dedicated on September 1^st, 1915. It replaced an earlier school known as the Camp Ground School. This became a city school when the area was annexed into the city in 1917.

BELLEVIEW SCHOOL. A school in East Knoxville, located at the corner of Bertrand and Howard Streets. Became a city school in 1897.

BERMUDA SCHOOL (?). Besides the Chestnut Hill School, another unnamed school is shown in the Bermuda community on the 1895 Knox County map.

BEVERLY / BEVERLY HILLS SCHOOL. Located on Tazewell Pike, in the Beverly community, this Knox County school is listed in the 1939 Knoxville City Directory.

BEVERLY SCHOOL. The earlier name of the Oakland School for black children. The 1904 city directory shows this as the Beverly School, located in the Beverly community. By 1911, the directory shows this as the Oakland School, and lists the school as being located in the Oakland community.

BLOOMING GROVE SCHOOL. North Knox County. Located about one and a quarter miles northeast of Halls Cross Roads on the 1895 Knox County map. The school apparently operated at various times in at least three separate buildings. It is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report as the Blooming Hill School. The school was one of four area schools that closed in 1922, when students previously attending those schools were assigned to the newly constructed Halls High School.

BLUE GRASS SCHOOL. An unnamed is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, east of the nearest community shown on that map, Blue Grass. (The Paulette Institute is also shown in the Blue Grass community on the same map.)

JOSHUA BONER MUSICAL SCHOOL. A school of musical instruction on the piano forte, for young ladies, advertised in the Knoxville Register on October 14, 1836.

BONNY KATE SCHOOL. South Knoxville, in the Neubert Springs area. The school was originally established in 1832.

BOWMAN'S SCHOOL. East Knox County. A school in the Progressive community, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

BOYD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. A city Junior High School. Located at 629 Western Avenue. The school was on the property of the old Deaf and Dumb School site, later the Knoxville City Hall property. Those buildings later became the site of the Stair Technical Institute. Originally called the Boyd School (see below).

BOYD SCHOOL. A city school, originally operated in the building of the original Knoxville High School, also called the Girl's High School, located at the corner of Union and Walnut. The name of was changed to Boyd Junior High School in 1924 and the school moved to a location behind the City Hall building, the original Deaf and Dumb School (TSD) site.

BRIGHT HOPE SCHOOL. North Knox County. North of Fountain City, on the east side of Jacksboro Pike and north of Beverly, as shown on the 1895 Knox County map. This was one of four schools that closed when the new Halls High School was built.

BRIGHT'S CHURCH SCHOOL. North Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about equal distance between the communities of Mynatt and Church Grove. Probably the same school that is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report, shown then as Bright's School.

BROAD STREET SCHOOL. A school in North Knoxville, on Broadway. Listed in the 1885 city directory, when North Knoxville was a separate city.

BROOKSIDE SCHOOL. A kindergarten school, listed in the 1912 city directory at 502 West Baxter Avenue. Near the Brookside community. An illustration of the school appears in the periodical, The Lookout, published in Chattanooga on May 30^th, 1914. The article in that issue of the magazine describes the school then as having an enrollment of one hundred and seventeen students.

BROOKSIDE SCHOOL. Another school was called the Brookside School, but was located in a different section of town. This was a school for black children in East Knoxville, at 219 Bell Street. First listed in the city directory in 1897.

HARRIETT BROWN SCHOOL. A private school, at 1605 Dandridge Avenue. Listed in the 1919 city directory.

BROWN'S SCHOOL. Said to have been the first school in the Powell area, the school was about a half mile south of what later became known as Powell's Station, and the school was in existence long before the community was known by that name.

BROWNLOW SCHOOL. A city grammar school. Constructed in 1915. On East Glenwood Avenue, at the corner of Luttrell. Originally, local newspapers reported that the name would be the Glenwood School, but when the school was completed and opened that fall that name was the John Bell Brownlow School.

BURNSIDE SCHOOL. A school for black children, at 1502 Detroit Avenue, in the city of West Knoxville. When West Knoxville became a part of the city, students from this school were assigned to city schools. As was the case of African American students who had attended the Riverside School, some Burnside School students were also transferred to Knoxville College, where schooling for young children had already been long established.

CALDWELL SCHOOL HOUSE. A school in Mechanicsville. The Press and Herald mentions on January 25^th, 1874, that citizens of Mechanicsville met to discuss the continuation of the free Mechanicsville school. The meeting was held at the Caldwell School House. The location of this school had not been determined.

CAMP GROVE SCHOOL. North Knoxville. The original school in the Whittle Springs Road - Washington Pike section. Built around 1906. Shown in the 1912 city directory, on Washington Pike. The school closed in 1915 and was replaced in the area by the new Belle Morris School.

CAMPBELL'S CAVE SCHOOL. North Knoxville. A school in the Tazewell Pike area. The name of the school was originally the Rodgers School. The name was changed to Campbell's Cave School in the early twentieth century.

CANSLER SCHOOL. Referred to in Charles W. Cansler's 1939 book, "Three Generations", as Knoxville's first school for black children, operated by in Knoxville by Mrs. Laura A. Cansler during the Civil War, circa 1863 - 1864. (However, a school for African American children was earlier established at St. John's Church by Thomas Humes, in pre Civil War years.)

CARPENTER SCHOOL. A county school, in the Treeville community, in Northwest Knox County, northeast of Oak Ridge Highway. shown on the 1895 Knox County map. The school was still in existence as late as 1913, probably later.

CARTER HIGH SCHOOL. In the Carter community. The new school building was dedicated on September 1^st, 1915. Students who previously attended the Lyonton School thereafter attended the Carter School.

CARTER'S SCHOOL. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about a mile north of Lyonton, near the Carter community. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL. A private parochial school. Originally established in 1921, when the school operated what had been the Gregory Ashe home. A proposal for a new school building was afoot as early as 1939. Eventually, a new school building was built on Magnolia, but it was not opened until the early 1950's.

CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. Listed as a school in Knoxville in the Chamber of Commerce publication, "Knoxville, Tennessee ... 1896/7 .."

CEDAR BLUFF SCHOOL. Originally a one room schoolhouse in the Cedar Bluff community, dating from the nineteenth century. The school was in operation in 1871, when a report in the Journal on September 14^th of that year mentions the school. The 1913-1914 Knox County School Report lists the school, in the Fifth District. The school is not shown on the 1895 Knox County map (unless it is shown on that map with a different name).

CEDAR GROVE SCHOOL. This school was opened in August, 1876. It was built on land donated to the community by Charles Lonas. The school was operated by Charles Lonas, Jr., and was described in a local newspaper as "a handsome frame building, 42 x 24". The school is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, where it is not shown in the Cedar Grove community, but in the York community. The school is still listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

CEDAR RIDGE SCHOOL. East Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, near the county line, about a mile northeast of Lyonton. The school was still in existence when the County Superintendent's 1912-1913 school report was issued.

CEDAR SPRINGS SCHOOL. In the Cedar Springs section, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, north of Kingston Pike, about two and a half miles northeast of Richland and two miles northwest of Ebenezer. The Cedar Springs School is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. North Knox County. Central High School was established by a vote of the County Court, and it was the first public county high school with a full curriculum, designed to prepare students for advanced college level education. Central High School opened in 1906, in the building previously occupied by the Holbrook Normal College. A new building was later constructed at the same site. Institutions known as "High schools" had existed previously in Knox county, examples being Farragut, two years earlier, and earlier still at such places as Powell's Station and Heiskell. Those schools were community schools, teaching all grades, from One through Nine (or Ten). In the case of Farragut, in its initial years, students were primarily taught only basic skills and such things as farming practices.

CHESTNUT GROVE SCHOOL. East Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in the Bermuda community. References indicating that this school closed in 1905 when students who attended this and other area schools thereafter attended the Ritta School are apparently in error. The Chestnut Grove School is still mentioned in local newspapers eight years later, as one of the county schools participating in the Knox County Educational Rally, held at Ball Camp in September, 1913.

CHRISTENBERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. North Knoxville. A city school, opened in 1935, on Warren Avenue (now Oglewood Avenue). The building was demolished a number of years ago, and the Christenberry middle school was constructed at the same site.

CHURCH GROVE SCHOOL. North Knox County. In the Church Grove community. Opened in 1906. One reference indicates that the Gibbs High School was built at the same location where this school originally stood, but if so it appears that another Church Grove school building was built, since the Church Grove School did not close until 1938.

CLAXTON SCHOOL. A school located at 500 Piedmont Street. This became a city school in 1917. A new school building was constructed in 1928.

CLEAR SPRING SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in East Knox County. Located on Old Rutledge Pike, near the Grainger County line. On that map, the school is at least two and a half miles from the nearest communities, House Mountain and Skaggston. A new building for the school was constructed in 1938.

CLOVER HILL SCHOOL. An African American school in the Beaver Ridge (now Karns) community, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

COLORED HIGH SCHOOL. 900 Payne Avenue. The name of the high school for African American students. Austin High School on Central Avenue was abandoned in the early twentieth century, students were transferred to the Green School building, and the name was changed to the Colored High School, but at that location it was also called Austin High School. A new high school was built on Vine in 1928, where that school was likewise known both as the Colored High School and Austin High School. After the new high school was built, the Green School again assumed its original name

COLORED DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM. An African American school for the deaf, established in the early 1880's. Shown on the 1895 city of Knoxville map, located in East Knox County, on Dandridge Pike, north of the Chilhowee Park residential addition (not the recreational park of the same name.)

COLORED SCHOOL. Another name for the Logan Chapel School.

COLUMBIA HALL SCHOOL. A county school, in South Knoxville, on Island Home Pike, south of Meade Quarry, shown on the 1895 Knox County map. Probably the same school later called the Quarry School.

CONCORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A school located on Loop Road, in the Concord community.

CONCORD PRIVATE SCHOOL. A school in the Concord community in the nineteenth century.

CONCORD SCHOOL. An unnamed school, located in the Concord area on the 1895 Knox County map, just east of the Concord Race Track. Probably this was the same Concord School that is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. The 1895 map shows only this one school in Concord at that time, although the 1881 Tennessee State Gazetteer indicated that three schools were there. Possibly that reference was to other area schools, not specifically located in Concord, or to private schools.

CONCORD COLORED SCHOOL. A school for black students in the Concord community. Opened in a one room school house in 1894 as the Concord Colored School. The school building burned in 1939 and was replaced with a new building. The school closed in 1965 and that building burned in 1970.

CONNORS SCHOOL. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, east of Bull Run and Heiskell's Station. Still listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

COPPER RIDGE SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in the Snoderly community.

CORRYTON SCHOOL. A county school, in the Corryton community. Established in 1906, said in some references to have replaced the Walnut Grove Academy. However, the Walnut Grove school continued in operation for several years afterwards, since it is still listed in the County School Superintendent's report for 1913-1913.

COURTNEY HILL SCHOOL. In the original West Knoxville area, along Second Creek, the school was located near where Neyland Stadium now stands. When the area became a part of the city of West Knoxville, this became the area school for black children and was renamed the Riverdale School.

CRAWFORD SCHOOL. A school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

CRENSHAW SCHOOL. A school located in the East Knoxville area. The Chronicle reported on July 24^th, 1878, that an East Knoxville branch of Knoxville College had been established in the Crenshaw School building, with thirty-five students enrolled.

CRESWELL SCHOOL. A nineteenth century city school for black children. Originally operated in the Baptist Church building on Gay Street, then in a blacksmith shop, before a new building for the school was constructed at the corner of Pine Street and Lee Street

CRIPPEN SCHOOL. A county school in the late and early nineteenth century. The Crippen School was closed when the Ritta School opened in 1905.

MISSES CROZIER MUSIC SCHOOL. A music school, located on the second floor of Staub's Theater, at the corner of Gay and Cumberland. An advertisement for this school appears in the 1889 city directory. Miss Cornelia Crozier taught voice and Miss K. Annah Crozier taught piano at this music school.

CURRIER SCHOOL. A county elementary school. In the 1930's and 1940's. City directories show the school on Lowes Ferry Pike (now Northshore Drive). This was the earlier name of what later became the Rocky Hill School.

CURREY'S SCHOOL. A private school, at the corner of Gay and Hill in the nineteenth century. This may have been the same school as the Daughter's Collegiate Institute (which see).

DALE AVENUE SETTLEMENT HOUSE SCHOOL. A school with programs for schooling and recreation. Opened in 1910, for students who worked part time at area mills. A similar program operated at the Pickle School.

DANCING SCHOOL. A dancing school, dating from Knoxville's earliest times. Neither the name of the proprietor nor the location is known. Despite the sketchy available information, this school has been included here as an example of the existence of such a facility in frontier days in Knoxville. In his Journal, John Sevier recorded on October 5^th, 1797, that his children had gone "to the dancing school" in Knoxville.

DANTE SCHOOL An unnamed school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, just northeast of the Dante Community. This may have been what was called the Plainview School,

DANTE SCHOOL. Another county school in Dante, located on Dante Road.

DANTE DALE SCHOOL. An African American school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

DAUGHTERS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. A private school, in the early 1860's, operated by a Dr. Currey. Probably this was Dr. Richard Currey, who was the author of Sketch of the Geology of Tennessee, a book printed in Knoxville in 1857.

DICKEY SCHOOL. A school for African American children in the Beaver Ridge (Karns) community, in the nineteenth century. The school burned in 1876.

DITNEY HILL SCHOOL. An African American school in the Third District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

EAST EMORY SCHOOL. A Knox County African American school, listed in the 1912-1913 Knox County School Report under "Colored Schools". Locate in the Fifth District. A West Emery School was also in existence at the time. Both schools were apparently located in the Concord area, each school had only one teacher, and both of them lived in the Concord community.

EAST KNOXVILLE SCHOOL. In East Knoxville, a school for African American children, listed in the 1869 Knoxville city directory, located on Temperance Hill. The school was operated by the Union Presbyterian Mission, and a Dr. Brown was the teacher.

EAST TENNESSEE FEMALE INSTITUTE. Previously the Knoxville Female Academy, the name was changed in 1846 to East Tennessee Female Institute.. The school was located on Main, west of Henley Street. It was reorganized in 1870, and renamed the East Tennessee Institute. The school closed in 1911. An illustration of the school appears in Art Work of Knoxville.

EAST PORT SCHOOL. In the East Port community. Originally a school for African American children. The more recent East Port School building opened in 1932. At one time it was known as the East Port High School, when the school was listed in the 1869 city directory. This school probably held the record for longevity among all Knoxville's city and county schools, having closed in 1995 after being in operation for more than one hundred and twenty-five years. In the 1860's, it was also known as the Fourth Sub District School. The East Port School is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, north of Brabson's Ferry Road.

EBENEZER ACADEMY. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about a mile northwest of Ebenezer and south of Kingston Pike. The school is Shown on that map merely as the "Academy", but there would seem little question that this was the same preparatory school for young men, originally established by Samuel G. Ramsey. A local newspaper reported on July 17^th, 1876 "Professor Murphy and family have returned to Ebenezer and are ready to commence the fall term of the Ebenezer Academy".

EBENEZER SCHOOL. Another unnamed school, operating in the local church at Ebenezer, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

EBENEZER SCHOOL. An elementary school in the Ebenezer community, in operation until 1938, when the Blue Grass School opened. This was possibly the unnamed schools in this area shown on the 1895 Knox County map, that school being located about three quarters of a mile east of Ebenezer.

EBENEZAR SCHOOL FOR NEGROES. A school for African American students, operated at Ebenezar in the 1870's, where William F. Yardley was the teacher.

EDDINGTON SCHOOL. South Knox County. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, near the Knoxville and Augusta Railroad, east of Maryville Pike and southwest of Jones Chapel.

EDGEWOOD SCHOOL. A school for African American children, on Krone Avenue, in North Knoxville, near where Fulton High School is now located. The Edgewood School became a city school in 1917..

ELMWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Original school register records for this school, from the 1930's, are found at the Knox County Archives, but the school is not listed in city directories of that period. Location unknown, but likely this school was in the Elmwood community, which was along both sides of Magnolia, between Winona and Bertrand.

FAIR GARDEN SCHOOL. A city school, located on Rutledge Pike in 1911. A new school was built at 400 Fern Street in 1927 and the Fair Garden School moved to that address,.

FAIRVIEW SCHOOL. One of three different Knox County schools called the Fair View School in the nineteenth century. This school was located on Dora Street, in Mechanicsville, and was a school for African American children. The school opened in 1883. While I find nothing specific concerning the school name, the logical assumption is that it was so named since the school was located in what had originally been known as the Moses Fairview Addition, in Mechanicsville, where John Moses had deeded some of the land to local black men. A new school building was built and opened in the area on Clinton Street in 1897, and the name of the Fairview School was changed to the Horace Maynard School at the new location.

FAIRVIEW SCHOOL. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in southwest Knox County, east of the Blue Grass community.

FAIRVIEW SCHOOL. Another county school called the Fair View School, also shown on the Knox County map, located just southwest of the Treeville community, in northwest Knox County.

FARRAGUT ACADEMY. A school in the Farragut section, shown on the 1895 Knox County map - before a Farragut community existed.

FARRAGUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A county school, in the Farragut community.

FARRAGU T HIGH SCHOOL. In the Farragut community. Opened around 1904, spearheaded by local residents, as a vocational and agricultural school - primarily as a training ground for students to become farmers. The original building burned in 1906 and was rebuilt. Some references state that this was Knox County's first high school. While the designation - or definition - of "high school" has obviously changed greatly since older times, Heiskell High School and Union High School (in Virtue) are examples of earlier high schools in Knox County, and Powell's Station High School was in existence in 1874. The first true public high school in the county (outside the city limits) - not for teaching basic elementary skills and/or farming and agricultural instruction, but with a curriculum designed to provide students with an educational background for college studies - was Central High School.

FANCY HILL SCHOOL. North Knox County. Shown east of Beverly and southwest of Rita on the 1895 Knox County map. This school reportedly closed when it and other area schools were replaced by the Ritta School in 1905.

FERLEIGH SCHOOL. A private school, listed in the city directory for the years 1906 through 1915. Located at 308 East Fifth Avenue. Earlier this was called Miss Lee's School. The 1906 directory listing as the Ferlee School was apparently a misprint.

FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL. A private parochial school, at 505 West Fifth Avenue.

FLENNIKEN SCHOOL. South Knoxville. This school dates back to the middle nineteenth century. It became a Knox County school in 1888. Later it became a city school in 1917, and a new school building was constructed in 1919, on Flenniken Avenue.

FLINT HILL SCHOOL. A school, located in the community of the same name. A local newspaper article in October, 1912, reported that a box supper was held in the Flint Hill community, "at the Flint Hill Schoolhouse". Flint Hill was in East Knoxville, from Swan Avenue east to McCammon.

FORBES NEW SELECT SCHOOL. Mentioned in the Knoxville Register on March 16^th. 1836, "the New Select School, opened by Rev. Mr. Forbes, of the Episcopal Church."

FORD SCHOOL. A school located in the Ford community in South Knoxville, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

FOREST HILL SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th, 1871. Located in the Second District, two miles north of town. Miss Kate Baird was the teacher and thirteen students were enrolled that year.

FORESTDALE SCHOOL. North Knoxville. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, north of Washington Pike.

FORT SUMPTER SCHOOL. North Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, west of the Preston community and north of Pedigo.

FOUNTAIN CITY SCHOOL. An elementary school, located on Fifth avenue in Fountain City.

FRAKER'S SCHOOL. A school in northeast Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, east of Corryton and northeast of House Mountain.

FREEDMAN'S SCHOOL. The Freedman's School was in operation in Knoxville following the Civil War. It was located in a building at the where the first building at Knoxville College was later built in 1875.

FRENCH SCHOOL. An unnamed school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, the nearest community to the school being French, about a mile to the south, in south Knox County.

MRS. LUCY CROZIER FRENCH SCHOOL,. This school was in operation from 1885 to 1889. An advertisement for Mrs. French's school appears in the December 24^th, 1888 issue of the Journal. The school was called "Mrs. French's Home and Day School, and School of Elocution", and operated in the East Tennessee Female Institute building.

GALBRAITH SCHOOL. A county elementary school, located on Galbraith School Road.

GAP CREEK SCHOOL. A county school, obviously the school for children in the Gap Creek community, although actually located approximately a mile west of Gap Creek and just a quarter mile south of Kimberlin Heights, on the 1895 Knox County map. That likely is the reason some references suggest that Gap Creek was the earlier name of Kimberlin Heights, although both communities are shown on the 1895 map.

GARLAND SCHOOL. A school in the Fifth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

GERMAN-ENGLISH LUTHERAN PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. Listed in the 1912 Knoxville city directory. The school is mentioned more than fifteen years earlier in the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce publication, "Knoxville, Tennessee - 1896/7". The address was at the northwest corner of Broadway and West Fifth Avenue.

GIBBS HIGH SCHOOL. In the community of the same name. Opened in 1913. In 1937, fire extensively damaged the Gibbs High School. Another damaging fire occurred at the school in 1970.

GIFFIN SCHOOL. Listed in the 1911 city directory, on Sevierville Pike. The Giffin school became a city school in 1917, when the area became a part of the city. A new school building was constructed at Sevierville Pike and South Haven Road in the 1920's.

GIRL'S HIGH SCHOOL. The Girl's High School opened in 1881 and originally was conducted in the East Tennessee Female Institute building on Main street. In 1884, the school operated in a building at Gay and Church, then in 1885 the school moved into a newly constructed building at 431 Walnut, at the corner of Union. It was a high school for city females, but the school yearbooks included the male students who attended the Hampden Sydney school, and those annual publications were called the yearbooks of the Knoxville High School(s). In fact, before the new Knoxville High School was built on Fifth Avenue, the school's sports teams for the Walnut Avenue school were reported in local newspapers as being the Knoxville High School team. GLENWOOD SCHOOL. This was announced to be the name of the new school at Glenwood and Luttrell. When the school opened in the fall of 1915, the name had been changed to the John Bell Brownlow School.

GLUCKSON'S GERMAN SCHOOL. Listed in the 1886 city directory, on West Clinch, at the northwest corner of State. Operated by Professor H. Gluckson.

GOFF'S SCHOOL. A private school, located at 2213 Washington Avenue, listed in the 1906 and 1907 city directories.

GRATZ STREET SCHOOL. An elementary school, in the city of North Knoxville. Located on Gratz Street, at the corner of Lovenia. Replaced by the McCallie School in 1907.

GRAVELEY HILL SCHOOL. Southwest Knox County. One of three school that were replaced when Farragut High School opened in the early twentieth century. Location not determined, but obviously somewhere in the Farragut/Concord section. Probably one of the unnamed schools shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

GRAYBILL'S SCHOOL. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map in West Knox County, northwest of the Mabel community, near the Roane County line.

GREEN SCHOOL. A city elementary school for black children, located at 907 Payne Street, at the corner of Pritchard. This was renamed Austin High School, or the Knoxville Colored High School, when that school moved from its building on Central to this location. Later, when students in high school level classes were transferred in 1928 to the new Colored High School on Vine Street, , also named Austin High School, this was again called the Green School.

GREEN HILL SCHOOL. A county school, on Brushy Valley Road. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map in the Pedigo community. Many years later, a fire extensively damaged the building in 1978 and a new building was constructed.

MRS. JAMES HAIRE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. A private school, in the early 1860's. Location not determined.

HALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In Halls Cross Roads. Before Halls High School opened, high school level classes were taught at this school.

HALLS HIGH SCHOOL. In the Halls Cross Roads community. In 1922, a new school building was constructed, replacing four area schools - - Stony Point, Montvale, Blooming Dale, and Bright Hope. Other Halls area schools were the Fort Sumpter, and Beech Grove schools. Another new building was constructed and opened in 1937, across the street from the original school site.

HALLS SCHOOL. An unnamed school is shown approximately a mile east of the Halls Cross Roads community, on the 1895 Knox County map.

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY ACADEMY. A school for boys, founded in the 1817. Once connected with East Tennessee College (University of Tennessee), it became a separate school by the 1830's. Shown in the 1869 city directory as being located on Locust Street, between Cumberland and Church. In 1882, only grades one through five were taught at the school. In later years, the school moved to the northeast corner of State Street and Commerce, across the street from the Palace Hotel (later the site of the YMCA). At that time, it was also called the Boys High School and Intermediate School. A section in the 1907 Knoxville High School yearbook, the Voice, is devoted to a description of the activities at this school, where classes were then taught through the eighth grade.

HAPPY HOME SCHOOL. An African American school, in the Happy Homes community, located south of Western Avenue, on Monroe Road. A one room school, with grades One through Eight. The school closed in 1963.

HARDIN VALLEY SCHOOL. A Hardin Valley school existed in the early twentieth century, if not before then. The school is mentioned in local newspapers in September, 1913, in connection with an educational session held for schools at Ball Camp. A new Hardin Valley School was constructed in 1931. That school burned in April, 1978.

HARMER PRIVATE SCHOOL. South Knoxville. A school listed in the 1939 Knoxville city directory, located at 100 Island Home Boulevard.

HARRIS SCHOOL. An African American school in the First District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

HART SCHOOL. A school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, east of Concord and west of Blue Grass.

HEISKELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A county school, in the Heiskell community

HEISKELL HIGH SCHOOL. In the Heiskell community. A copy of an announcement for an entertainment in 1899 at this school is in the collection at Knoxville's McClung Room. This may have been the same school as the Heiskell Elementary School, with all classrooms in the same building, with all classes taught under the same roof. Such was typical at Knox County schools at the time.

HEISKELL SCHOOL. An elementary school in the city, for black children. Constructed in 1897, at the corner of Kentucky Street and Campbell Avenue. The school was named for a Knoxville Mayor, S.G. Heiskell. The Heiskell School replaced the King's Chapel School.

HESKA AMUNA HEBREW SCHOOL. A private school, located at 529-531 Fifth Avenue.

HICKORY NUT SCHOOL. A school in the Corryton section in the nineteenth century, later renamed the Mountain View School.

HIGH BLUFF SCHOOL. A county school, in South Knox County, on Tipton Station Road, in the community of the same name.

HIGH POINT SCHOOL. An unnamed school shown on the 1895 Knox County map. The closest community to the school on that map being the High Point community, just southeast of the school.

HIGHLAND AVENUE SCHOOL. Originally in the city of West Knoxville, located at Highland Avenue and 5^th Street. Earlier known as the West Knoxville School and later renamed the Van Gilder School.

SAM E. HILL SCHOOL. A city elementary school for black children, established by the city in the Lonsdale section, at 339 West Delaware Avenue. One reference states this school opened after that community became a part of the city of Knoxville, but another indicates that the school was in operation before that time.

HILL'S SCHOOL. A school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. The school had been in existence in the nineteenth century, since it is shown as a place for voter registration in the Journal in September, 1892. The school was still in existence in 1938.

HODGE SCHOOL. A school for African American students, in the First District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

J. H. HOFFMAN MUSIC SCHOOL. A school, operating in the Knox Hotel (Lamar House site), mentioned in the Knoxville Enquirer on June 8, 1825.

HOLSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A city school, on Wheeler Avenue.

HOLY GHOST SCHOOL. A private parochial school, at Central Avenue and Hinton Street.

HUCKLEBERRY SPRINGS INSTITUTE. A report in the Knoxville Chronicle on July 23^rd, 1874, mentions this school, as follows : "Professor Beaman opened his Institute at Huckleberry Springs, in this county ... called the Huckleberry Springs Institute." This school was operated by F. C. Beaman, who later established Beaman's Lake and Park, what today is Chilhowee Park. Probably this is the same school shown as the Huckleberry Springs School on the 1895 Knox County map.

ROBERT L. HUFF SCHOOL. A county elementary school, located on Riverside Drive.

THOMAS HUMES SCHOOL. A school for black children, operated by Humes at the St. Johns Church, in the pre-Civil War period.

MISS HUMES PRIVATE SCHOOL. A private school, in the late nineteenth century. Location not determined.

INGRAM PLACE SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th, 1871. Located in the Sixth District. A. J. Haskew was the teacher, and eighty-five students were enrolled.

INSKIP GRAMMAR SCHOOL. A county school, on High School Avenue.

INSKIP SCHOOL. A county school, opened around 1912, with grades One through Ten, (then being the final high school grade level.) The Inskip School was a consolidation of two previous area schools, the Woodlawn School and the Tindell School. Obviously, based on the definition of high schools in those times, this could just as easily have been called a high school, and in fact the school is listed as a high school in the 1930 city directory.

ISLAND HOME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A city school, at 524 Island Home Blvd.

JONES HILL SCHOOL. A city school for black children. Shown in the 1916 city directory at Sevierville Pike, then in 1920 as being located on Davenport Road. By 1939, the address is shown in city directories on Church Lane, and the name then was the Jones School. The school closed in 1940.

KARNS HIGH SCHOOL. Opened in the Beaver Ridge community in 1913, replacing what had been previously the Beaver Ridge School. Named for Thomas Karns, who was the second Superintendent of Knox County schools. Apparently Karnes was an early spelling for this school in the Beaver Ridge community. According to a contemporary newspaper report, the first transpiration of students in Knox County was in a wagon, in September, 1913, from Bell's Bridge to "Karnes High School". A similar example of dropping the final "e" in the name of a local school was the Mynders School, in North Knoxville, originally called the Mynderse School.

DORA KENNEDY SCHOOL. A county school, in East Knox County, on Strawberry Plains Pike. One reference indicates that when this school opened in 1909 it replaced the Mosina School. Perhaps eventually that was the case, but it obviously was not when the Kennedy school originally opened, since the Mosina School was still in operation as late as 1914. The Dora Kennedy School was named for the daughter of E.M. Kennedy, who taught at the Mosina School, a school that was located in the Kangaroo community.

KIMBERLIN HEIGHTS SCHOOL. A school about which I have found scant information. The Knoxville High School girl's basketball team played a game against the girl's team from the Kimberlin Heights school in 1916, as recorded that year in the K H S monthly publication, the Voice. Perhaps this was a team from the Johnson Bible College (?)

KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL. A school listed in the 1891-1892 city directory, located at number 25 West Cumberland avenue.

KINGS CHAPEL SCHOOL. A school for black children, located at 606 Payne Street in East Knoxville. First listed in the Knoxville directory in 1896, but the school was first in operation around 1891. A new school building was constructed at the corner of Kentucky and Campbell Streets in 1897, and the school was later renamed the Heiskell School, named for Mayor S.G. Heiskell.

KING'S SCHOOL. A private school, located on Island Home Pike in South Knoxville in the early twentieth century.

KITTS SCHOOL. North Knox County. A school on Emory Road, east of Harbison's Cross Roads. The school closed in 1921.

KLONDIKE SCHOOL. South Knoxville. A county school, on Spangler Road, in the Klondike community

KNOX COUNTY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The original name of the John Tarleton School / Institute. Founded in 1896, for "wayward children .. two miles west of Knoxville, on the Middlebrook Pike." Within a few weeks the school started using the John Tarleton property and the school thereafter was known as the John Tarleton Institute.

KNOX COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL. The Whig and Chronicle reported on July 10^th, 1878 that a school in Powell's Station, called the Knox County Normal School, had just closed for the summer. The school is described as a one room schoolhouse that operated daily during the school year from 8:30 AM until 12:30 PM, and also conducted "two nights of entertainment each week".

KNOXVILLE ACADEMY. A private school, at Main and Henley, in the 1880's.

KNOXVILLE CLASSICAL SCHOOL. A school at 143 Gay Street. Listed in the 1889 city directory.

KNOXVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY / INSTITUTE. Established in 1827, the academy operated in a building on Main avenue in 1829. A newspaper advertisement on May 31^st, 1843, announced the opening of the summer session at the Female Academy, where classes in Music, Drawing and Painting were offered. The name was changed to the East Tennessee Female Institute in 1846. For years, public meetings and entertainment continued to be held at the Female Institute. Knoxville's July 4^th, 1870 celebration was held in the downtown area, and the orations on that occasion were delivered at the Female Institute. The school later moved into a larger newly constructed building, also on Main avenue, completed in 1890.

KNOXVILLE FEMALE SEMINARY. A girl's school, located on Union Avenue, in the nineteenth century. An advertisement in the Register on April 3^rd, 1849, when Principal, R. B. McMullen, announced that he would thereafter be attending to the school on a full time basis. Subjects taught included music and French, and the instructors were Mrs. McMullen, Miss Catliv, and Miss Williams.

KNOXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. A city high school, on Fifth Avenue. Opened in 1910, when students from the earlier Knoxville High School, or Girls High School, and Hampden Sydney Academy, were transferred to this newly constructed building. Knoxville High School closed in 1951, as did Stair Tech, when three new high schools were opened - - East, West, and Fulton. The same year, Rule High School was enlarged, and South Junior became South High School.

KNOXVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL. Listed in the Knoxville city directory for 1869, located in the Market Hall, at the Market House on Market Square.

LANCASTRIAN SCHOOL. A city school, opened in 1818, for children ages four through nine.

LEBANON CHURCH SCHOOL. This school is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, operated in the Lebanon Church. Located northeast of the Cowards community, southwest of Beaver Ridge. The school was still in existence in 1912, when it is mentioned in the September 16^th issue of the Journal and Tribune, and in 1913, when it is listed in the Knox County School report as the Lebanon School.

DR. E. LECOMPTE SCHOOL. A private school, listed in the 1859 city directory, at the northeast corner of Crooked (Walnut) and Cumberland.

LEE'S FIFTH AVENUE SCHOOL. A private school, on East Fifth Avenue. Listed in the city directory for 1889. Operated by a Miss Ida M. Lee. This later became the Ferleigh School.

LIBERTY HALL SCHOOL. South Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, west of Maryville Pike. Not near any community, being about two miles south of the river, in the area that today is Alcoa Highway, around Woodson Drive. The school is still listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

LIBERTY HILL SCHOOL. West Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, southwest of the Cowards community and northeast of Hardin Valley.

LINCOLN PARK SCHOOL. The school in the Lincoln Park community. The original school was at Atlantic and Kenyon. The school moved to Chickamauga Avenue when a new school building was constructed in 1916.

LITTLE CREEK SCHOOL. A private school, in the Blue Grass community. Established in 1942, operated by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

LITTLE DOVE SCHOOL. On Ridgedale Road, in the Harbison Cross Roads section.

LITTLE FLAT SCHOOL. A school in the Corryton area in the nineteenth century, operated in the Little Flat Creek Baptist Church.

LOCKETT SCHOOL. A city elementary school, On Clancy Avenue, at the corner of Scottish Pike. Opened in 1935.

LOGAN CHAPEL SCHOOL. Also called the Second Sub District School. A school for African American children, listed in the 1869 Knoxville city directory, on Marble Alley. Marble Alley was the name of the alley that ran parallel to and between Crozier Street (Central) and State Street, from Commerce to Union. In the 1880's, city directories show that several African American families were living on Marble Alley. The Logan Chapel School was located just south of the location of the Logan Temple A. M. E. Church. This is apparently the same school that shown later on the 1890 Sanborn map of Knoxville as the Colored School.

LONAS SCHOOL / INSTITUTE. The Lonas School was located at Lyons View Pike and Kingston Pike. Shown in the 1916 city directory as the Lonas Institute. It became a city school in 1917, when the area was annexed. The school closed in 1928.

LONGTON SCHOOL. South Knoxville, just east of Maryville Pike and southeast of Jones Chapel, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

LONSDALE HIGH SCHOOL. A school in the Lonsdale community, before the area became a part of the city. Originally on Connecticut Avenue. A new school was built in 1907, on West Louisiana Avenue, between Burnside and Bragg. References usually refer to this school merely as the Lonsdale School, but at one time it was called the Lonsdale High School. The only known yearbook issued by this school was published in 1911, called the Appalachian of Lonsdale High School. All grade levels beginning with the first grade were taught at the school, with the final grade level being the tenth grade, which in those times was usually the highest grade level in high schools. When the Appalachian was issued, the total enrollment was six hundred students, but only three students - - all females - - were in the senior class that year. A report of a "social and entertainment" at the Lonsdale High School appears in the Journal and Tribune on October 2^nd, 1912. From 1914 to 1916, the girls and boys basketball teams from Lonsdale High School played games against such area teams as Park City High School, the YMCA, Harriman and Kimberlin Heights. The girls team had an interesting series against the team from Park City in 1911, losing one game by the one-sided score of 36 to 9, then later defeating Park City by the score of 5 to 4. This became a city school when Lonsdale was annexed into the city of Knoxville. After annexation, students in Lonsdale would be required to attend Knoxville High School for public school education in the higher grade levels. In the 1930's, Lonsdale area students, parents and residents complained, because of the distance to that school, and apparently many of the students simply refused to attend high school. Those complaints resulted in the expansion of Rule into an eventual combination Junior-Senior High School in the 1930's.

LONSDALE SCHOOL. A school for black children, in the Lonsdale community, on Thomas Street. Established in 1909.

LOVELL SCHOOL. A school in the Lovell community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, located at Lovell Road and Kingston Pike.

LUTTRELL SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, north of Ritta and south of Maloneyville. The school closed in 1905 when it and other area school were combined when the new Ritta School opened.

LYONS VIEW SCHOOL An African American school in the Lyons View area, located at 4008 Lyons View Pike. The school is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. The school closed in 1963.

LYONTON ACADEMY. A school in the Lyonton community, shown on the 1895 map of Knox County. Apparently this was the same school listed in the 1913-1914 Knox Co Public School report as the Lyonton School.

MABEL SCHOOL. An unnamed school is shown in the Mabel community on the 1895 Knox County map.

MCANALLY FLATS SCHOOL. A school for black children, in the McAnally Flats community, located at Leslie and Citico Streets, west of Clinton Road (Western Avenue). The school is listed in the 1891-1892 city directory, and is still listed in the 1912 directory. Later, the Leslie Street Park and pool were located in this general area.

MCCALL SCHOOL. South Knox County. A county school, on Pickens Gap (Tipton Station) Road.

MCCALLIE SCHOOL. A city elementary school, built in 1907 at Gratz and Lovenia. Originally in the city of North Knoxville, when it was called the Gratz Street School. The school closed in 1977.

MCCAMMON SCHOOL. A school in Knox County, on Armstrong Pike, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

MCCAMPBELL SCHOOL. North Knoxville. A city elementary school, at 520 Emoriland Boulevard.

MACEDONIA SCHOOL. A county school, listed in the 1912 city directory, on Armstrong Pike.

WILLIAM MACKLIN'S SCHOOL. A writing, grammar, mercantile, and mathematical school, operated by William Macklin, mentioned in the November 24^th, 1818 issue of the Knoxville Register.

CAPT. MACKINLEY'S SCHOOL. North Knox County. A school, mentioned in the November 9^th, 1831 issue of the Knoxville Register, as follows : " a large and comfortable school, on the road from Knoxville to Tazewell, four miles from Knoxville, by board of the first common school section, Captain MacKinley's Company, Knox County, Tennessee ". Reverend William A. McCampbell was the teacher.

MACMILLAN SCHOOL. A city elementary school, for African American children, on East Church Avenue, at the corner of Lowery. Built in 1909. The school closed in 1952.

J. MCNICHOLS SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th, 1871. Located in the Eleventh District and operated in the Mars Hill Baptist Church. Twelve students were enrolled that year.

MARS HILL SCHOOL. West Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, north of Gallahers View Church, about a half mile north of Kingston Pike. The school continued in operation well into the twentieth century.

MARBLE CITY SCHOOL. In the Marble City community. This is listed in the city directory as a private school in 1913, on Sutherland Avenue. It became a city school in 1917. A new facility opened in 1927, at the corner of Brock Avenue and Portland Avenue, and the name was changed to Perkins Elementary School.

MARBLE CITY SCHOOL. A private school also called the Marble City School is listed in the 1913 city directory, Not in the Marble City community, but located on Sixth Avenue. This school was in the vicinity of the North Knoxville residential development called Marble Hill in the nineteenth century, which apparently was the reason the school was given this name.

MARBLE HILL SCHOOL. The Marble Hill school was not located in the Marble Hill community. The school is listed in early twentieth century Knoxville city directories, located in East Knoxville, on Dandridge Pike. This is a reminder of why I long ago realized it is best not to be overly concerned about trying to understand or explain some things in this compilation, particularly with regard to the names and locations of some places. This Marble Hill School was not located in Marble Hill, and there was a Marble City School that was not located in Marble City.

MARBLEDALE SCHOOL. A county school, on Thorngrove Pike, in the Marbledale community. Operated from the middle 1930's until 1964.

MACEDONIA SCHOOL. Armstrong Pike.

MASCOT SCHOOL. In the Mascot area, on Riverview Road.

MASCOT SCHOOL. A school for black children, also in the Mascot community.

MAYERS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. A school for black children. Located at Payne and Patton Streets. Classes were Grade One through the high school level, and subjects taught here included music, domestic science and sewing. The first year the school is listed in city directories is 1912. This apparently was the continuation of the Slater Industrial School, the school originally founded by Emily Austin, that school having moved to Payne Street about a quarter century before the Mayers school is listed in the 1912 directory.

MAYNARD SCHOOL A city elementary school for black students, on Clinton Street (now College Street.) The school opened in 1897, replacing the Fairview School. Originally named the Horace Maynard School, and still listed under that name in the 1911 city directory.

MEADE SCHOOL. South Knoxville. A city school, located on Island Home Pike. One reference indicates that the school opened in 1936 and closed in 1957, but the Meade School is listed several years earlier, in the 1930 Knoxville city directory.

MECHANICSVILLE SCHOOL (WHITE). In the Mechanicsville community in the nineteenth century. Grades one through five were taught. When that area became a part of the city, the school was first known as one of the Ninth Ward Schools. Located on Deaderick Avenue, it became the Moses School.

MCHANICSVILLE SCHOOL. (COLORED). In the Mechanicsville community in the nineteenth century. Grades One through Five were taught at the school.

EMMA MELVIN SCHOOL. A private school, listed in the 1912 city directory at 713 West Cumberland.

MIDWAY SCHOOL. The school in the Midway community. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox Co Public School report. The Midway School Closed in 1975.

MILLERS SCHOOL. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map. North of Caswell and south of the Millertown Church.

MILLERTOWN SCHOOL. The school in the Millertown community, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

MITCHELL'S CHAPEL SCHOOL. A school for African American children, established in 1906, in the Mitchell'S Chapel community. One directory shows the location on Stonewall Street, another shows it on Thomas Street. The school was usually called the Mitchell's Chapel School, but some directories show it as the Mitchell School.

MONDAY'S SINGING SCHOOL. A music school, mentioned in the Knoxville Register on April 20^th , 1818. Classes were held at the Methodist Meeting House.

MONTVALE SCHOOL. North Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, just east of Halls Cross Roads. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. This was one of the schools that closed when the new Halls High School was built in 1922.

MOORE SCHOOL. South Knoxville. A county school, opened in 1905. The name later was changed to Mooreland Heights School.

MOOREFIELD SCHOOL. North Knoxville. Just south of Washington Pike, shown on the 1895 Knox County map. This apparently was near the location of the Camp Ground School, which was built in 1906 and closed when the area was annexed and students in the area thereafter attended the Belle Morris School.

MOORELAND HEIGHTS SCHOOL. The later name of the Moore School, a county school, on Magazine Road.

MORRIS' CLASSICAL SCHOOL. Listed in Branson's Handbook of Knoxville for 1892 as a school for boys in Knoxville. .

MOSES SCHOOL. A city elementary school, located at Tulip and Deaderick Avenue. Originally this was called the Mechanicsville School. The school building was enlarged in 1907, when another story was added, expanding the facility from ten to fifteen rooms.

MOSINA SCHOOL. A one room school, in operation in the early 1870's, possibly earlier. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in the Kangaroo community. One reference mentions that In the Dora Kennedy School took the place of this school in 1909, but the Mosina School was still in existence in 1913, being listed that year in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

MOUNT OLIVE SCHOOL. A county elementary school, at Maryville Pike and Belt Road. In the Mount Olive community. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY. A private school, located at 173 Hill Avenue, operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph. On March 28^th, 1883, the Tribune contains the report of an Exhibition was held at the St. Joseph Academy.

MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL. East Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, east of the Wanita community. Still in existence in 1913, when the school was listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL. The elementary school in the Mountain View community, east of the downtown section. Constructed in 1927, at 1655 Dandridge Avenue.

MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL. Another school called the Mountain View School was in North Knox County, southeast of the Corryton community. It is shown on the 1895 Knox County map. Earlier, it had been called the Hickory Nut School.

MUD FLATS SCHOOL. A school in south Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in the Mud Flats community, about a mile southwest of the Nast community,

MUSIC SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about three miles east of Bull Run and two and a half miles southwest of Pedigo.

MYNDERS SCHOOL. An elementary school, located on Pearl Place. Originally a school in the city of North Knoxville, it became a city school in 1917.

NEW HOPE SCHOOL. A city elementary school, for black children. Originally operated in the New Hope Church in the nineteenth century. Shown on Cecil Street in the 1920 city directory, then in later directories the address was at 1301 Brown Avenue. By 1930, the city directory shows the name of this school as the New Hope Chapel.

NEW SCHOOL. A school listed in city directories of the early twentieth century, located on Cumberland Ave.

NINTH WARD SCHOOL. Another name for the Mechanicsville school for African Americans, also called the Ninth Ward School.

NORTH KNOXVILLE SCHOOLS. The 1869 city directory locates the North Knoxville Schools on Broad (now Broadway). Later, there were two schools in the city of North Knoxville, one for white students and the other for African Americans. They were located in two frame buildings on Gratz Street, between Lovenia and Gill Streets. The North Knoxville City Hall was located between the two schools. A new building was constructed for white students on Pearl Place, in 1889, that school later becoming the Mynders School. The black students who had attended the North Knoxville School were transferred to either the Austin School or Knoxville College.

NUBBIN RIDGE SCHOOL. An African American school in the Fifth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

OAK GROVE SCHOOL. North Knox County. An African American school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in the Bayless community. The school is listed in the 1906-1907 Knox County Second District Public School report.

OAKDALE SCHOOL. A school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. The school closed in 1963.

OAKLAND ACADEMY. Local newspaper accounts in 1874 describe a Knox County Teachers Institute (a training session) that was held at the Oakland Academy. This probably referred to one of the three schools called the Oakland School at the time (see below.)

OAKLAND SCHOOL. A school for African American children, in the Oakland community. City directories of the 1940's indicate that the school was then in the Beverly community. To add confusion to my creeping senility, early twentieth century city directories call this section the Oakland community when the school for black children here was called the Beverly School, although by 1911 the directory calls this the Oakland School.

OAKLAND SCHOOL. Another school known as the Oakland School is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, located approximately three miles northeast of Powell Station, south of Dry Gap Pike.

OAKLAND SCHOOL. Yet another, the third Knox County school called the Oakwood School, is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, southwest of Powell Station, near the intersection of Old Clinton Pike and Emory Road.

OAKLAWN SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in the 1906-1907 Knox County Second District Public School report.

OAKWOOD SCHOOL. The elementary school in the Oakwood community. On Churchwell Avenue. The school opened in 1906 in a three room wooden structure. The city directory for 1911 lists this as the Oakwood High School, which likely meant grades One through Ten were then taught at the school. A new two story brick school building was completed in September, 1915. When the area was annexed in 1917, students were assigned to Knoxville High School for upper level classes.

MISS OGDEN'S SCHOOL. Operated by Miss Kate Ogden, this was a private school for boys and girls, from the first grade through the tenth grade, at that time the final high school grade level. Located at Main and Henley, as listed in city directories of the 1890's. Advertised to prepare students "for duties of life, or entrance to advanced college". The location, at Humes Terrace, was "two doors from the Court House, on the south side of West Main Street".

OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL. Opened in 1930, in the Hampden Sydney school building. Later became the Stair Technical High School.

PALESTINE SCHOOL. A Knox County school, located in the Sixteenth District, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th, 1871. A. P. Smith was the teacher, and eighty students were enrolled.

PARK CITY HIGH SCHOOL. East Knoxville, in Park City. The Armstrong School in Park City closed and was renovated and enlarged to create the Park City High School in 1909. Park City High School was located east of Olive, the school property covering the block between Linden and Parkview. By 1911, the city directory shows the address of Park City High School as being on Linden Avenue. Originally, tenth grade was the top senior class level, as was the common circumstance in high schools then. The school yearbook, the Kalendar, was first issued in 1909. In 1915, the school annual promoted Park City High as the largest high school in the south. The school was in existence in 1923, since a school annual was issued that year.

PARK CITY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. East Knoxville. On Bertrand Street. Constructed in 1927. Junior high students moved here from the old Park City High School building that earlier had been converted into an elementary and junior high school.

PARK CITY LOWERY SCHOOL. East Knoxville. When the Park City High School closed, it initially became a combination elementary and junior high school. Later, the new Park Junior High School opened in 1927 and the school at the original high school site was renamed Park City Lowery elementary school.

JAMES PARK SCHOOL. A school opened and operated in 1866 by Reverend James Park, the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The school was initially located in rooms at the steam mill, on Prince (Market) Street, at the south end of that street, near the river, then later was located on Cumberland Avenue.

PARK STREET SCHOOL. First listed in the Knoxville city directory in 1886, at the corner of Park Street and Williams Street. In 1890, it is listed as the West Park Street School, but thereafter is again shown as Park Street School. Williams Street ran north from Depot to the Williams Addition, and West Park Street was what is now Magnolia, west of the railroad tracks. A new building was constructed in 1897 and became the Rayl School.

PAULETTE INSTITUTE. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in the Blue Grass community. It is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report as the Paulette School.

PEABODY SCHOOL. A city school. Opened in 1874, on Morgan Street, two blocks north of Depot. In 1882 , the average daily attendance was three hundred students.

PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL. A school, for all grades, established in Powell's Station in 1875. Later became Powell High School. Most references consulted refer to this school as the Perkins School. However, on July 9, 1875, the Daily Press and Herald, reporting activities at the school and that year's graduating class, calls this the Peabody High School. The Principal was W. H. Perkins, who taught the classes at the school, together with S. M. Cooper and W. N. Montgomery.

THOMAS J. PEAS SCHOOL. A school located at Temperance Hall, at the corner of Pine and East Clinch, in 1859.

PERKINS SCHOOL. A city elementary school, on Brock Avenue, at the corner of Portland, off Sutherland Avenue. Opened around 1922. It was originally called the Marble City School. The school closed in 1982.

PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL. Said in some references to have been the name of the first high school established in Powell's Station, established in 1874. (See Peabody School.)

PICKEL SCHOOL. A school, on LeRoy Street, near the Brookside Mills. One room was devoted to students who worked part-time at the area mills.

PINE GROVE SCHOOL. West Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map. The Pine Grove School was located south of the intersection of Ball Camp Pike and Third Creek Road.

PINEY GROVE SCHOOL. North Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, east of the Church Grove community and northeast of Harbison's Cross Roads.

PLAINVIEW SCHOOL. A school in the Dante community in the nineteenth century. In 1898, the Plainview School had thirty-one students and the school's teacher was W. J. Mayes.

PLEASANT GROVE SCHOOL. A school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

PLEASANT HILL SCHOOL. West Knox county. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about a half mile east of the Richland community. The school was shown as a place of voter registration in the Journal in September, 1892.

PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL. A county school. Located on Pleasant Ridge Road, in the Pleasant Ridge community. Established in the early twentieth century. Became a city school when the area was annexed in 1961,

POWELL'S STATION HIGH SCHOOL / POWELL HIGH SCHOOL. The high school in the Powell community. The Powell's Station High School opened in 1874, first called the Peabody School, called in some references the Perkins School), and reportedly was the first graded public school in Knox County. On June 7^th, 1878, the Chronicle mentions that the Primary Department of the Powell's Station Graded School had closed for the school year, apparently referring to the earliest grade level students at Powell High School, since it was common in those times that all grades were taught in the same building at most county schools.

POWELL'S STATION SCHOOL. An unnamed school is shown in the Powell Station section on the 1895 Knox County map.

POWELL'S STATION SCHOOL. (See Knox County Normal School.)

PRESTON SCHOOL. In the Preston community of North Knox County, near Maynardville Highway, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

PRESTON SCHOOL The 1895 Knox County map shows another school, unnamed, also in the Preston community.

PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR BOYS. A school in the city of Knoxville, on the west side of Market Square, listed in the 1869 city directory.

PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL. An unnamed school, shown in the Progressive community on the 1895 Knox County map.

QUARRY SCHOOL. On Island Home Pike. Listed in the 1916 city of Knoxville directory. This was possibly the same school shown on the 1895 Knox County map as the Columbia Hall School, shown then also on Island Home Pike, south of Meade Quarry.

RAMSEY SCHOOL. A county school, on Straw Plains Pike. Existed from 1930 until after 1950.

REGISTER BUILDING SCHOOL. A city school, in the 1870's. Location not known.

RITA / RITTA SCHOOL. In the Ritta community, opened on Washington Pike in 1905. Some references record that the Ritta School was a consolidation of previous schools, including the Crippin, Chestnut Grove, Fancy Hill and Luttrell schools. However, the Chestnut Grove School was still in operation in 1913, being one of the county schools participating that year in an Educational Rally.

RIVERDALE SCHOOL. A school in the Wanita community, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, and listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

RIVERDALE SCHOOL. Another school with the same name, this Riverdale School was a school for black students, in the city of West Knoxville. The school operated in the building that had previously been the Courtney Hill School. The Riverdale school was closed in 1893, and students were transferred to Knoxville College and to African American Knoxville city schools.

RIVERSIDE SCHOOL. A school for black children, located at Seventh Street and Detroit, in the city of West Knoxville.

ROBERTS SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th , 1871. The school was built by Henry Roberts. Located near House Mountain. Miss Lou Rutherford was the teacher. Twenty-eight pupils were enrolled in 1871.

ROCKDALE SCHOOL. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, one and a quarter miles southwest of the Shooks community.

ROCKY HILL SCHOOL. A school in the Rocky Hill section. Originally called the Currier School when it opened in 1900. .

ROCKY POINT SCHOOL. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, southwest of the Richland community and north of Campbell.

RODGERS SCHOOL. North Knox County. A school in Knox County in the late nineteenth century, on Tazewell Pike. The name was later changed to Campbell's Cave School.

ROSE AVENUE SCHOOL. In the city of West Knoxville. The school closed from 1895 to 1902, when the area had become a part of the city of Knoxville. As a city school, it reopened, and was renamed as the Staub School in 1915.

ROSEBERRY CITY SCHOOL. A school in the Roseberry City community, listed in the 1920 Knoxville city directory.

E. S. RUGGLES SCHOOL. The August 14^th, 1862 issue of the Daily Register advertised this as a "Select School for Young Ladies", to open on the first of September that year.

RULE HIGH SCHOOL. On Virginia Avenue, Lonsdale. Rule opened in 1927 as an elementary school with grades One through Eight. Grades Nine and Ten were added in 1935 and 1936, when the elementary level grades were eliminated, and the Twelfth Grade was added in 1938, making Rule a combination Junior and Senior High school. The school was named for William Rule, author and one time mayor of Knoxville. Generally considered to have been in the Lonsdale community, but in fact the school was at the southern edge of that community, at the western edge of Grove City, and just north of Beaumont.

RUSSELL SISTERS SCHOOL. A private school, once in the Concord community.

RUSSELL STREET SCHOOL. A school for African American children, shown in city directories in the early twentieth century. At the corner of Russell Street and Shea Street.

ST. ALOYSIUS SCHOOL. Listed in the 1859 city directory, located at the southwest corner of Vine Street, at Crooked (Walnut) Street.

ST. CREEK SCHOOL. A Knox County school listed in the 1912 -1913 Knox County School Superintendent's report. There were two teachers at the school. Location not determined.

SAINT MARY'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. A private school, located at Park Street (Magnolia) and Williams Street, listed in city directories of the 1880's. The address in the 1912 directory is shown at 414 West Vine. The school is still listed in city directories of the 1940's.

SELECT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. A school listed in the 1869 city directory, located at the southeast corner of Gay Street and Asylum (now Wall) Avenue.

SELECT SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. An article in the Knoxville Whig on May 2, 1866, mentions the School for Young Ladies operated by N. P. Parkhurst , at his residence on Bridge Street, "The McPherson House".

SELECT SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. Listed in the 1869 city directory, on Crooked (Walnut) Street, between Cumberland and Church, under direction of Rev. R. L. Kirkpatrick, formerly President of East Tennessee Female Institute.

SENTERTOWN SCHOOL. A school in the Sentertown community, an African American section along Millertown Pike.

SEQUOYAH SCHOOL. An elementary school, In Sequoyah Hills, on Southgate Road. Opened in 1930.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL. A private school for black children, at 320 University Avenue, listed in the 1930 city directory. By 1939, the directory shows the address was at 1805 Paige Street.

JOHN SEVIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In the John Sevier community. Opened in 1926, on Charlotte Drive.

JOHN SEVIER SCHOOL. The new Bell House School was originally named the John Sevier School, when first constructed in 1897. The city directory for 1898 still lists it as Sevier School, but the name was changed soon thereafter to Bell House School.

SEVIER HOME SCHOOL. A county elementary school. In operation from 1936 to 1961.

SHADY GROVE SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in southwest Knox County, in the Rodelm community.

SHERROD'S SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th, 1871. Located in the Sixteenth District, where the teacher was Claiborne Sherrod, and seventy-five pupils were enrolled.

SHILOH SCHOOL / SHILOH CHURCH SCHOOL. A school for black children, on the south side of Clinch, at the corner of Henley Street. Listed in the 1869 city directory. A small African American neighborhood was a block or so west of the church at that time. This was also known as the First Sub District School.

SHOOKS SCHOOL(S) Two unnamed schools are shown on the 1895 Knox County map in this general area, both north of the Shooks community. One was located south of the Hopewell Church and the other was west of that church.

SIMPSON SCHOOL. A city school for African American children, located on Church Lane, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

SINKING SPRINGS SCHOOL. East Knox County. A county school, shown on the 1895 Knox County map, just northwest of Riverdale. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT SCHOOL. A Knox County school for African Americans, listed in a school report in the Journal on September 14^th, 1871. The teacher was a Mr. Price and the average attendance was twenty-five to thirty pupils.

SLATER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. A school for the manual training of African American children, the Slater Industrial School opened in 1885. The school was financed by the "Slater Fund", of the American Missionary Association of New York, plus private funds, contributions by the city of Knoxville, and a small income from nominal tuition fees. The school moved into a new building in 1886, at number 44 Payne street. The school's first principal was Emily Austin, a white woman who had come from Philadelphia and established the Austin School, a school for black children in Knoxville.

SMITH'S SCHOOL. East Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, near the county line, south of Tuckahoe and east of Progressive. The school was still in existence when it was listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report

SMITHWOOD SCHOOL. In the Smithwood community, on Tazewell Pike. A school that dates back to the nineteenth century.

SNYDER SCHOOL. West Knox County. Originally a one room school house, on Snyder Road. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox Co Public School report. The original school was replaced with a new building in the 1930's, but the school closed soon thereafter. The school was located in a section known by local residents as Black Oak Ridge.

SOLWAY SCHOOL. The Solway School, apparently in the community of Solway, is mentioned in an article in the Journal and Tribune on September 16, 1912. Location not determined.

SOUTH KNOXVILLE SCHOOL. On Sevierville Pike, this school is listed in city directories as early as 1904, and is included in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

SOUTH KNOXVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. A city school, opened in 1937, on Moody Avenue. In the early 1950's, it became South High School.

SOUTH KNOXVILLE SCHOOL. A city elementary school, at 601 Sevier Avenue. The 1916 city directory shows the location "at the south end of the Gay Street bridge".

SPRING HILL SCHOOL. A school that was in existence in the nineteenth century, and continued into the twentieth century, in the Spring Hill community, in the area around the intersection of Ball Camp Pike and Ball Road. Listed in the Second District in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

SPRING PLACE SCHOOL. In the Spring Place community, just east of the intersection of Washington Pike and Spring Place Road, shown on the 1895 Knox County map.

STAUB SCHOOL. A city elementary school, located at 1923 Rose Avenue. The Rose Avenue School was renamed the Staub School in 1915.

STINETTE SCHOOL. An unnamed school in the Stinette community, shown on the 1895 map of Knox County.

STOCK CREEK SCHOOL. South Knox County. A school in the French community, shown on the 1895 map of Knox County.

STOCKDALE SCHOOL. South Knox County. An unnamed school shown in the 1895 Knox County map, about one and three quarter miles northwest of the Shooks community.

STONEY POINT SCHOOL. A school in East Knox County, northeast of Wanita and northwest of Progressive, on the 1895 Knox County map. It was still in existence at least as late as 1912.

STONY POINT SCHOOL. A school located in North Knox County, about a mile and a half northeast of Halls Cross Roads, shown on the 1895 Knox County map. The school is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report. This was one of four schools that were abandoned when the new Halls High School was opened.

SUB DISTRICT SCHOOL, FIRST. A school for black children, listed in the 1869 city directory, operated in the basement of the Shiloh Church, on Clinch Avenue, at the corner of Henley Street. Also known as the Shiloh School. To the west of the church, off Clinch, there was a small neighborhood of African American residents.

SUB DISTRICT SCHOOL, SECOND. Another school for black children, located in the basement of Logan Chapel, at the corner of Marble Alley, between State and Water (Central). Also called the Logan Chapel School.

SUB DISTRICT SCHOOL, THIRD. A school for black children, located on the west side of Market Square. Also called the United Presbyterian School.

SUB DISTRICT SCHOOL, FOURTH. Another name for the East Port School.

SUMMIT HILL PUBLIC SCHOOL. The Summit Hill School was nowhere near what was called Summit Hill, in the downtown Knoxville area. Instead, it is shown on the 1895 Knox County map in East Knox County, east of the Kangaroo community.

SUNNY VIEW SCHOOL. East Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, south of Mayo community. still listed in the 1914 Knox County Public School report.

SUNRISE SCHOOL. East Knox County. An African American school, in the Sunrise community.

SWAN SCHOOL. The school in the Swan community.

ISABEL TAPPON SCHOOL. A private school, at 164 Highland Avenue.

TEMPERANCE HALL SCHOOL. A city school, listed in the city directory in 1876.

TENNESSEE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (T S D). Opened in 1845, as the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. In 1855, the school moved into a large building on Asylum Street (later Western Avenue, now Summit Hill Drive). The school later moved into the present quarters, south of the river and the Western Avenue building became City Hall.

THACKSTON SCHOOL. West Knoxville. An elementary school, located at 2023 Lake Avenue.

THIRD CREEK SCHOOL. In the Third creek community, originally a one room public school house, located on Ball Camp Pike. The Third Creek School closed in 1958.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT SCHOOL. A public school in the Vestal community, listed in the 1911 city directory, on Maryville Pike.

THOMPSON'S SCHOOL. Northwest Knox County. On the 1895 map of Knox County, east of the Snoderly community, and still listed in 1913 in the Knox County school report.

THORN GROVE SCHOOL. A county school, In the Thorn Grove community, established in the nineteenth century. In 1871, John Rose was the teacher and 102 pupils were enrolled at the school that year.

TINDALL SCHOOL. North Knox County. A Knox County school, in the Inskip Community, listed in the 1906-1907 Knox County Second District Public School report. The school closed when the Inskip School opened in 1912.

TIPTON SCHOOL. South Knoxville. Shown on Maryville Pike, north of Flenniken and Tipton's Station, on the 1895 Knox County map. Listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

TOOLE'S BEND SCHOOL. A school in the Fifth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

TYSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. A city junior high school, on Kingston Pike. Opened in 1938.

UNION ACADEMY. North Knox County. The later name of the school operated originally by Isaac Anderson, who later founded the Southwestern Seminary in Maryville, now Maryville College.

UNION GROVE SCHOOL. A school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

UNION HIGH SCHOOL. West Knox County. The Union School is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report, but no longer as a "high school". Other instances are found in earlier years when some Knoxville and Knox County schools were given the designation as high schools.

UNION SCHOOL. Besides the Union Academy and the Union High School, another Union School is shown on the 1895 Knox County map, located in East Knox County, about one and three quarter miles southeast of the Mayo community.

UNION SCHOOL. The Journal mentions the Union School House as a place of voter registration on September 10, 1892. Whether this was one of the above listed schools is unknown.

UNIVERSITY AVENUE SCHOOL. Located on University Avenue, at the corner of Citico. In the McAnally Flats community, south of Mechanicsville. On February 28^th, 1913, the Journal and Tribune reported that the enrollment at the University Avenue School was three hundred and fifty students - - with only four teachers.

VALLEY GROVE SCHOOL. North Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, about one and three quarter miles west of Maloneyville.

VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL. A school located on Tazewell Pike. Operated from the nineteenth century until around 1923.

VAN GILDER SCHOOL. A city elementary school, at 1300 Highland Avenue, originally called the Highland Avenue School. In 1940, there were three hundred and seventy-five students and ten teachers at the school.

VESTAL SCHOOL. Shown in the 1912 and 1919 city directories, on Maryville Pike.

VESTAL SCHOOL. Another school in Vestal. This was a grammar school in South Knoxville, located on Willoughby Road. The school closed in 1983.

VIRTUE SCHOOL. It seems unlikely that this small community had more than one school, thus the unnamed school shown on the 1895 Knox County map was probably the Union High School (which see).

WALNUT GROVE ACADEMY / SCHOOL. North Knox County. West of Corryton, southeast of Graveston. An article in the Knoxville Tribune in 1878 mentions that the school was located " .. in a beautiful grove, where a new building for the school has been erected". The Walnut Grove School was still in existence in 1913, listed in the Third District Knox County report, thus it was not renamed the Corryton School in 1906, as one reference suggests.

WASHINGTON CHURCH SCHOOL. The 1895 Knox County map shows a school that was operated in the Washington Church, in the Maloneyville section. By 1913, it is listed as the Washington School in the annual Knox County School report.

WEST KNOXVILLE SCHOOL. In the city of West Knoxville. Located on what was then Fifth Street, between Highland and Bridge. The original name was the Highland School.

WEST VIEW SCHOOL. This public school that was located at various places over the years. The 1911 city directory shows the address at the corner of Irwin and Glenn Avenue. A few years later, the address is shown on Western Avenue, at the corner of Ramona. It became a city elementary school when the area became a part of the city, and later the address is shown on Mingle Avenue, at the corner of Belmont Heights.

WESTMORE SCHOOL. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, in southwest Knox County, south of the Southern Railway line, northeast of Concord.

WHITE'S SCHOOL. A school in the Shooks community, shown on 1895 the map of Knox County. (This community was once known as White's Community). The school is still listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

WHITTIER SCHOOL. A public school, located in Park City in East Knoxville. Listed in the 1912 city directory, on Rutledge Pike.

WILLOW FORK ACADEMY. North Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, between Halls Cross Roads and the Mynatt community.

WINWORTH SCHOOL. East Knoxville. A school listed in the East Knoxville community of Chilhowee Park in the 1904 city directory.

WINKLE'S SCHOOL. A Knox County school, listed in the Superintendent's report for 1912-1913, with two teachers. Location not determined.

MISS ALMA WOOD SCHOOL. A private school, at 605 Gay Street, listed in city directories of the early twentieth century.

LEIGHTON WOOD DANCING SCHOOL. A dancing school mentioned in the Knoxville Register on December 23^rd, 1817. Location not determined.

WOOD SCHOOL. A school in the Fourth District, listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School Report.

WOODDALE SCHOOL. East Knox County. The school in the Wooddale community, in East Knox County, shown on the 1895 Knox County map. The school closed in the 1940's.

WOODHILL SCHOOL. A county school, in operation from the 1930's until after 1950.

WOODLAWN SCHOOL. East Knox County. Shown on the 1895 Knox County map, near the bend at Seven Islands. The school is listed in the 1913-1914 Knox County Public School report.

WOODLAWN SCHOOL. Another Woodlawn School was located in North Knoxville, in the Inskip section. The school closed when the Inskip School opened in 1912.

WOOLEN MILL SCHOOL. A school listed in the 1919 city directory, in South Knoxville.

WRINKLE SCHOOL. South Knox County. A county school, on Neubert Springs Road.

YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL. A county high school, opened in 1913, on Chapman Highway at Woodlawn Pike. The original building burned in 1935 and a new school building was constructed. The school closed in 1975.

ZION SCHOOL. South Knox County. A school shown on the 1895 Knox County map, approximately a mile northeast of the Neubert Springs Hotel and a mile north of the Nast community.

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