{"id":2403,"date":"2012-11-22T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T04:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington2\/?page_id=2403"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:35:32","slug":"schools-in-washington-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/records-data\/schools-in-washington-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historical Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Academy – founded in 1780 by Samuel Doak; renamed Washington College \u00a0Academy<\/a>, 1795 \u2013 date
\nMartin Academy (boys’ school) – 1816-1862
\nJohnson City Institute – 1891-1894<\/a>
\nJonesborough Female Academy – 1833-1852
\nOdd Fellows Female Academy – 1852-1925
\nFall Branch Seminary – 1842-1865
\nJonesborough Female College – 1865-1873
\nWarner Institute (school for freed blacks) – 1873; until implementation of state public school law
\nScience Hill Debating Society – 1864; renamed Science Hill Seminary in 1866; became Science Hill High School<\/p>\n

Other Early Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bethesda School
\n<\/a>Booker T. Washington, — to 1964
\nBoones Creek Seminary
\nBrown’s School House
\nCampbell’s School House
\nCastle Heights Military Academy, 1929\u20131932
\nChalybeate Springs School<\/a>
\nDouglas
\nDungan School (Holston Male Institute)
\nFranklin Academy
\nLamar Presbyterian School<\/a>
\nLangston, 1893 \u2013 1964
\nLaurel Hill Academy
\nWaterloo
\nWoolwine School (Dunbar), 1907 \u2013 1910<\/p>\n

MODERN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0County system began in 1873. City system began in 1907<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON COUNTY RURAL SCHOOLS
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alleghaney
\nAsberry
\nAustin Springs
\nBarnes
\nBerea
\nBernard
\nBoones Creek Elementary
\nBoones Creek High School
\nBowmantown
\nBuchannan
\nCampbells
\nCherokee Heights
\nChestnut Grove
\nClaxton
\nColumbia
\nConklin
\nCraigmiles
\nDavy Crockett
\nDry Creek
\nEmbreeville
\nEnon
\nEureka<\/a> (in Asbury\u00a0Community)
\nEvening Star
\nFairview
\nFall Branch Elementary
\nFall Branch High School
\nGlendale<\/a>
\nGrand View
\nGrays
\nGreenwood<\/a>
\nHales
\nHodges
\nJackson
\nJonesboro Colored
\nKeeblers
\nLamar Elementary
\nLamar High School
\nLiberty
\nLimestone
\nMatson<\/a>
\nMcKinley
\nMcNeils
\nMitchell Springs
\nMount Carmel<\/a>
\nMt. View<\/a>
\nNew Era
\nNew Salem
\nNew Victory
\nOak Glenn
\nOak Hill
\nOak Grove
\nOak Springs
\nPhiladelphia
\nPiney Mount
\nPrinceton
\nSeminary
\nSeviers
\nSinking Creek
\nSulphur Springs Elementary<\/a>
\nSulphur Springs High School
\nTelford
\nUnaka View
\nValley View
\nWashington College Elementary
\nWashington College High School
\nWatauga Flats
\nWoodlawn<\/p>\n

Contributed by: Linda Aileen Carriger Dillow<\/p>\n

HIGHER EDUCATION<\/strong>
\nEast Tennessee State Normal School estab. in 1911
\nEast Tennessee State Teachers College in 1924
\nState Teachers College in 1930
\nEast Tennessee State College in 1943
\nEast Tennessee State University since 1963<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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