"The caretaker of the Jefferson School stoked the fire in the coal furnace, apparently too well, just before the school burned".
Old Jefferson High School Building
Barb wrote
"This is a picture of the
building which burned in 1929. There
was no gymnasium, so basketball was played outside".
Old Jefferson High School
"The caretaker of the Jefferson School stoked
the fire in the coal furnace, apparently too well, just before
the school burned".
The students went to school at
Mulberry until the new building was finished. The new building
had a gymnasium, and Barb's aunt was in the first class to
graduate from the new building in 1931.
© Barb Julien 2001