Doe Creek School (4D 59) - Sardis TN
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Don.Morfe
N 35° 28.206 W 088° 14.850
16S E 386815 N 3925892
Doe Creek School is one of Tennessee's last remaining one-room log schoolhouses. Built c. 1870, it has been used as a school and a church.
Waymark Code: WM1399J
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2020
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Doe Creek School- Doe Creek School is one of Tennessee's last remaining one-room log schoolhouses. Built c. 1870, it has been used as a school and a church. Yellow poplar logs, hauled to the site by a team of oxen, form the walls. Schoolmaster Elmer Duck dismissed the last class here in 1949 after teaching for five decades, one of the longer tenures for an educator in state history.
LOCATION: Marker is in Sardis, Tennessee, in Henderson County. Marker is on Doe Creek Road. Marker is in this post office area: Sardis TN 38371, United States of America
Marker Name: Doe Creek School
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Building
Marker Number: 4D 59
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Tennessee Historical Commission
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