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Farming For A Better Future, page 283
(Above) Excerpt of the 1910 U.S. Census Showing the Households of James and John Evans (Left) 1899 Listing for “Jas Evans” (Bottom Left) Cotton Hill School, Unknown Date (Retro Glances) (Below) Cotton Hill School, Unknown Date (Retro Glances)
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Dogwood Flat School*
According to a history of Limestone County schools, Dogwood Flat School began operating about 1920 and has been in many locations, sometimes holding classes in the Missionary Baptist church. At one point, local white landowners, Mr. George Braly and Mr. V.M. Leonard, petitioned the county for a schoolhouse. However, it is unclear whether it was ever built.
The most likely location of the Dogwood Flat School is east of Tanner, south of modern-day Huntsville-Browns Ferry Road on a road named Dogwood Flats. There was a school here in 1963 called Dogwood Flat, although this may not be the historical location. The New Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church is on this road as well, but the name or the location of the church that once hosted classes is not known.
Also, unknown are the teachers who first taught at this school when it opened. Teachers from 1920 to 1947 included Mrs. Lucy Stanley, Ms. Clara Mason, Ms. Katherine Beck, Mrs. Emma Harris, Mrs. Annie L. Maples, Mr. Wendell Fant, Ms. Louise Moseley, Mrs. Martha Fant, Mrs. Marveline Webb, and Mrs. Hattie Malone. In 1947 there were 65 students enrolled and the school was known to have “at all times participated in and cooperated with all county programs. In an equal measure it has responded to the call of Red Cross, Trinity, Farm Bureau, Cancer and War Bond drives.”
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