one room schoolhouse Archives - Appalachian History

Home and the school-house had both become too hot for me

Folk hero Davy Crockett was born in Greene County, TN. He remained in East Tennessee until 1811, when his parents moved to Lincoln County.

Kentuckian Sarah Ann Jackson’s 1835 diary was found between the walls of an old house in Laurel County, KY.

Daintry Allison was 25 years old in 1921, when these photos of McDowell County schools were taken. Her school would’ve looked quite similar.

“Five miles out from Old Fort, up near Catawba Falls,” said Daintry Allison. “That was my 1st school. No teacher ever stayed there 5 months.”

Children at school in 1925 would have used an inkwell similar to the one shown here, from the collection of the Cherokee County [GA] Archives.