The Milan exchange<\/em>, Milan, TN, December 3, 1881<\/p>\n The college at Decaturville was burned by an incendiary Friday night.\u00a0 The house was erected last year at a cost of $3,000.<\/p>\n In 1880, the trustees of Decatur County College bought the property, where the present school stands, from Mr. C. P. Dennison and Wife. A two-story, frame school building was erected on the property by the town of Decaturville. This building was used until 1909 when the present elementary school building was erected. The present high school building was erected in 1925. On December 8, 1927, the town of Decaturville deeded this school property to the County Board of Education. Both the elementary and high school are now county schools.<\/p>\n – Decatur County, circa 1938<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the state The Milan exchange, Milan, TN, December 3, 1881 The college at Decaturville was burned by an incendiary Friday night.\u00a0 The house was erected last year at a cost of $3,000. from other sources In 1880, the trustees of Decatur County College bought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/author\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["School<\/a>"],"unlinked":["School<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 19, 2013","modified":"Updated on November 19, 2013"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 19, 2013 2:15 pm","modified":"Updated on November 19, 2013 2:21 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}from other sources<\/h3>\n