Penny Tuemler Conrad - Pendleton County

The Falmouth High School building, shaded by large trees, stands abandoned at Fourth and Broad Streets. It was a two-story structure of eight classrooms. For a time the building also served as Pendleton County High School. In the late 1920s, this building was torn down, and a new one was built on Chapel Street. That building served students from first grade through high school until 1968. Today several beams and lentils from the old building can be found as architectural parts of at least one home on Robbins Avenue.

New Hope School could be found on the road that connected Foster with the crossroad, giving a view of the river area and valleys. In 1914 it served 32 pupils for 14 families with Jessie Rush as the teacher. In this photograph, Elizabeth Nordheim is the fourth girl from the right in the back row, and Anna Nordheim, her sister, is the fifth girl from the left in the back row. (Courtesy of Keith Gunkel.)

Seen here is the inside of a typical schoolroom around 1950. Note the wooden desks, which would have been bolted to the floor and arranged one behind another, with a drop-down seat at the front. The windows were quite tall, allowing the natural airflow needed before the days of air conditioning. (Courtesy of Billie Newman.)

In this picture taken about 1914, a group of students from the Hall School are seen posing for a traveling photographer with their teacher, Nona Wright. Bessie Lee Hall is noted with the arrow. (Courtesy of Joyce Carson.)

The officials in charge of the Pendleton County city school in 19171918 were W. J. Rule, R. R. Arnold, J. L. Bradford, J. E. Fossitt, R. L. Galloway, and Sheriff H. L. Cummins. County Superintendent J. N. Gosney was the chairman and treasurer, with N. H. Ellis as secretary of the eight divisions of the county schools. Each division had a principal. Note that the school year stretched from September to early May. (Courtesy of Cheryl York.)

Shown here taking a break from studies is the Goforth School sophomore class of 1932. From left to right, the students are (first row) Orman Conrad, Clyde Buckley, and James Chiles; (second row) Agnes Poor, Emma Lou Dance, Virginia Blackburn, and Roberta Hutchison. At this time, Goforth held classes for grades one through twelve.

This Falmouth School building served the Falmouth community from about 1928 until 1968, accommodating first through twelfth grades. In 1968, it became an elementary and junior high school for first through eighth grades. The high school students merged with the existing county high school. In 1972, the schools role changed again when it became a middle school housing the countys seventh and eighth grades. When a new middle school was built in 1998, it became the Falmouth School Center and serves as such today. (Courtesy of Hallie Hart.)

Butler School has been on the same site since the first school was built in the late 1860s as a one-room school. In 1931, Butler School consolidated and became a part of a county system. It held a high school until a new county school, Pendleton Memorial High School, opened in 1959. Today the school is an apartment complex.

Butler seventh graders pose for a class photograph in 19431944. From left to right, they are (first row) Carl Eckert and J. B. Whitaker; (second row) two unidentified, Alta Mae Fryer, Mary Helen Pribble, Betty Brownfield, Carletta Jenkins, and Bonnie Clifford; (third row) ? Lunsford, Joyce McLaughlin, Roma Burlew, John Goins, Ann Buchanan, unidentified, and Alma Faye Fryer; (fourth row) Corky Burlew, unidentified, Virgil Hale, teacher Edna Nagel, Ray Wolfe, Melvin Jenkins, unidentified, and Earl Hart.

Concord School had an enrollment of about 43 pupils from 21 families. This school was located northeast of Falmouth on the Concord-Lenoxburg Road. Emma Stevens served as the teacher during this time. (Courtesy of Velma Steele.)