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      Other School Listings

      The Lauderdale County schools below are referenced in various sources; in most cases, however, they no longer exist. 

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      County Schools as listed in the 1933 - 1934 Financial Report of the Lauderdale County Board of Education.

       

      District 1

      Anderson [2 schools, white and colored]    

      Confluence    

      Cross Roads    

      Good Springs [colored]
      Grassy    

      Hammond    

      Haraway    

      Howard
      Lauderdale County High School

      Lexington    

      Mt. Olive [colored]    

      Mt. Pleasant
      Oliver

      Portertown

      Rogersville Public School    

      Sweet Gum
      Springfield    

      Whitehead     
       

      District 2

      Alabama    

      Antioch    

      Atlas    

      Blackburn [colored]
      Bailey's Chapel    

      Center Star [2 schools, white and colored]    

      Ebenezer    

      Green Hill [2 schools, white and colored.]
      Killen [2 schools, white and colored]    

      McGee    

      Mt Zion [white]    

      Myrick [2 schools, white and colored.]
      New Hope    

      Palestine    

      Pisgah [colored]    

      Pleasant Valley
      Pruitton    

      Wilson     
       

      District 3
      Bethel [colored]    

      Beulah    

      Burcham Valley    

      Cedar Grove
      Central High    

      Cloverdale [2 schools, white and colored]    

      Coffee [colored]    

      Elting
      Fairview    

      Hewitt's [colored]    

      Hopewell [colored]    

      Jackson
      Jacksonburg    

      Kilburn    

      Lovelace    

      Mars Hill
      Mt. Zion [colored]    

      Oakland [2 schools, white and colored.]    

      Ray    

      Shiloh [colored]
      St. Florian    

      Stony Point    

      Threets    

      Underwood     

      Warren    

      Weeden     
       

      District 4
      Dabney    

      Gravelly Springs    

      Graham    

      Kendall
      Macedonia    

      Rhodesville    

      Smithsonia [2 schools, white and colored.]    

      Shaws
      Union Hollow    

      Wright    

      Waterloo [2 schools, white and colored.]     
       

      Schools listed by Jill K. Garrett in her History of Lauderdale County but not included in 1933-34 brochure above

       

      Bethel Grove    

      Brush Arbor    

      Bumpass Creek
      Comas    

      Little Zion    

      Lone Cedar
      McNary    

      Panther Creek    

      Rogers
      Romine    

      Union    

      Woodland
       

      School names mentioned in Sandra Sockwell's Doctoral Thesis "Place Names of Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama" (a copy of which is located in the Genealogy-History room of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library). The following are those schools, some of which are not located elsewhere by the same name.

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      Rocky Knoll & Green Tree, p.492  (T3 R12, 1900 - 1929)    

      Ray, p. 492  (T3 R12, ca 1929 - 1949)    

      Rock Primitive Baptist Church [Black], p. 491  (S18 T3 R 11, 1915)
      Jerusalem [Black], p. 492  (1915)                                                                 

      Brown's Chapel Methodist Church and School, p. 113    

      Anderson Rosenwald, [Black], p. 59
      West End High School [Black, aka Oakland Colored School] p. 59    

      Antioch, p. 61    

      Arkdell, p. 62
      Atlas, aka Comer School, p. 65    

      Bailey's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and School, p. 67    

      Old Bethel School, p. 435
      (New) Bethlehem School, p. 91    

      Beulah, p. 92    

      Brotherick, p. 113
      Bush Arbor, p. 123    

      Cedar Hill, p. 137