Brief History
- School was built in 1925 on 2 acres.
- Deedbook: 915, page 14; Platbook 0109-0495
- The single story school had one room.
- School was included in the 1940 school census
- The playground was across the street
- School was closed in year ?
- Building sustained fire damage (October 23) as reported in the News Messenger on October 25, 1973, page 1. The caption to the photo in the gallery states, “Old schoolhouse on Meadowbrook Road on Tuesday night on Fire – Occupied by several college students.”
- The building is now a private residence.
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- “My mother attended school at the one on Meadowbrook Drive (originally Tom’s Creek Road). Right across the road was the “ball field”, a flat meadow right along Tom’s Creek. Local ball teams from Price’s Fork and other communities would come there to play baseball on the weekends. . . I remember her talking about the schoolhouse. She told me they were in class the day of the mine disaster in McCoy and that every student there lost a family member except her. My grandfather was a miner but had recently left the McCoy mines which saved his life.”
- “It is about a mile from the Meadowbrook entrance to Heritage Park (Brown Farm).”
- “This one is one story, originally a one room school.”
- “When mom went to school there they had a pot belly stove for heat and an out house.”
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