Brief History
- School building is located at 3948 Mt Zion Road. The property is near the Fairview Church and cemetery.
- School was built in 1890 and retired in the late 1940s when it was sold as a private residence. It has now been razed due to extensive termite damage.
- In a few of the more recent photographs the vestige of the original high and smaller windows are visible.
- Deedbook: 109, page 489; Plat April 1938. At this time the Montgomery County School Board filed amended deeds and surveys for the land and school buildings across the county.
- A single-story, one-room schoolhouse with no running water, relying on outhouses and heated by a coal stove.
- Grades 1 to 7 were taught by one teacher. Teachers that have been identified to date: Mary Kabrich in the early 1930s and Birtie L. Cassady in 1940s.
- School was included in the 1940 school census
Links and Social Network
Blacksburg, Memories of the Way We Were
Search on the school name for information
1940 Montgomery County School Map of Sunnyside School
Social Media
Gathered information and memories from social media.
- Students who attended: CW and Floyd Price, brothers of Jimmy Price; Betty Woodson; Edith Shealor Hurt attended 1st grade in 1938 and graduated from 7th grade as well as her seven siblings: Cordie, Floyd, Stanley, Jeanette, Martha, Kaywood and Marshal; Ruby Dove;
- Miss Bertie Cassidy, Mrs Elva Saville, Della Saville McCauley (1930s) were teachers.
- The boys tended to the stove and the girls brought biscuits and cornbread to supplement the food the county provided. A room was set up as a nature display as well as a small library.
- Molly Staples Price lived there.
Image Gallery
(Courtesy of Montgomery Museum of Art & History).
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