Allardt Community
Photo Album
Barger School About 1909
Submitted by Peggy Maier with note: Bottom row, l to r: Johnny Anderson, Anderson Alden Brown, Edna Tryphosia Brown, Unknown, Elsie Brooks, Unknown Brooks, Dewey Anderson, Mitchell Anderson, Unknown Top row, l to r: Unknown Evans, Unknown, Nancy Brooks, Unknown Brooks, Unknown Hoover, Unknown Hoover, Ada Brooks, Miss Dora Rice teacher. (Note: I'm guessing at the date. My grandmother Edna Brown was born in 1903 & I believe she looks about 6 years old. This was the first school she attended.)
Established at the end of Reconstruction by land agent Bruno Gernt in 1881, Allardt was envisoned as a German colony for the “New South.” Several buildings associated with the community’s settlement and development are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.