Readyville High School - 1880’s-1903 was also known as Talley Hill and was located on the north side of Woodbury Road behind Tilford's store.
In 1892 N. D. Overall, County Superintendent of Public Instruction, reported 120 students in the school. It was the largest school at the time between Murfreesboro and Woodbury. The building was a large two-story structure. Among the teachers were John Hines, J. J. Northcott, John Wesley Jamison, Sara Jamison, Mary Murfree, Cassie McGill, Annie Youree, Frazier D. Smyth in 1894, Mr. Francis, and Mr. Hudson. In the Spring 1894 announcement, Principal F. D. Smyth described school as being a well-established school with comparatively new buildings and with a seating capacity for 150 “scholars of both sexes.” The teachers had “considerable experience in the profession and expected to make teaching a life-work To the patrons he said: “We shall strive to conduct our school as a thorough, practical school, combining practice with theory . . . . A limited number of recitations per week will be allowed each scholar, and in no case will pupils be permitted to overtax themselves . . . All students will be regarded as ladies and gentlemen.” The building burned in 1903. A new school was erected on the east side of the Porterfield Road near its intersection with the Woodbury Road. |
The Readyville School contained grades from 1 to 8 and ran from 1903-1919 was located on the east side of Porterfield Road. It was a frame building of four rooms with an L-shaped porch. A few of the teachers were Glenn McBroom, George W. Hollandsworth, Mary Hall, Lemuel Willard, Iva Hogwood and Mrs. Andy Wharton Macon.
The Readyville colored school ran until 1940 near the county line and was about a block north of Tilford's and the Woodbury Road and also served as the colored Church of Christ. It was a one-room building where grades 1 to 8 were taught. A few of the teachers were: Mary Meadows from Nashville, Willie Crockett Miller, Mary Hudson, Lillian Jordan Hammons in 1928, Frank Knight, Miss Harris, Eugene Smith, Bud Brandon, a Watkins, a North, a Frazier, and Ola Bell Hutchins. The property of Charlie Brown on Tassey Road is where the colored schools were located.
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