Hart County One-Room Schools 1945-46 -- Munfordville KY
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An exhaustive list of Hart County's One-Room Schoolhouses for both White and Black children, on the grounds of the Hart Co. Courthouse in Munfordville
Waymark Code: WM15T5X
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2022
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This Munfordville city tourism commission marker lists the name and teachers of every one-room schoolhouse that met its demise after the 1945-1946 school year. The marker lists every one-room schoolhouse in Hart County, denoting those serving Black students in the County with an asterisk, for "colored."
It's interesting that the Munfordville Tourist Commission used the word "colored" in 2017, the year that this marker was erected. While the term "colored" for Black people might have been accepted in society in the 1950s, in 2017 that term is several decades out of date and considered to be demeaning, not much better than the more visceral and offensive word it replaced.
Nevertheless Blasterz have reproduced that term and the names of all those schools in this Waymark, because that's what we do: we preserve the words on the sign - all of them - because they were chosen for a reason, and they are a reflection of the community, what is proud of, what standards are, what it wants to be remembered for.
The marker reads as follows:
"[Seal of the city of Munfordville]
HART COUNTY ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS
1945-46
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In 1945, Hart County had 67 One-Room Schools scattered throughout the county. These 67 schools served students in grades first through eighth.
Not quite a decade later, all One-Room Schools in Hart County had been closed. At that time – 1954 - schools in Hart County were racially segregated, and the school serving African-American pupils were known as “colored schools.” (designated by asterisks below). By 1965 all segregated schools had been abolished.
In loving memory, and with humble gratitude, we recognize the dedicated educators who taught at these one-room schools with the following list.
Blue Spring* -- Estella Baker
Bolton – Mildred White
Bonnieville* -- Anna Louise Mosby
Burd - Samuel C. Wilson
Camp Ground - August Cooper
Cane Run - Evelyn Brown Dorsey
Cave Hill - no teacher
Cedar Cliff - Mary Opal Pickett
Center Point - Lillie Atwell
Chalk Ridge - Louise Durrett
Chatten – Valeria Smith
Cherry Springs - Miriam Cottrell
Copelin - Lena Copelin
Craddock - Hazel Kessinger
Defries - Eugenia Cartmill
Dixie – Genevieve Taylor
Dog Creek – Lois Johnston
Dry Run – Ida Linder
Durst – Vera London
Euclid – Mary Vass Hensley
Eudora – Ruth Savage
Fairview – Mary Priddy
Falling Springs – Helen Moody
Forestville – L Lucille Stasel
(continued on other side)
HART COUNTY ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS
1945-46
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Frenchman’s Knob – Marvin Smith
Friendship – Grace Close
Glenn Lily – Flossie King
Haggard – Rhoda Snyder
Halltown* – Estellyne Manning
Hammonsville* – Sarah Bradley
Hammonsville – Hetty Highbaugh
High Hickory – Mildred Hodges
Isaacs – Martha Lee Ward
Knob– Geraldine Butler Owens
Johnson – Mary D. Harper
Jones – Hal Jones
Leitchfield Crossing – Rosa Nell Clauson
Liberty – Christine Nunn
Little Fllock – Romona Doyel
Lone Star – Elaine Sturgeon
Monroe – Martha Lee Overfelt
Mt. Beulah – Ora S. Reynolds
Mt. Pisgah – Agnes Watkins
Munfordville* – Verda Roberts Butler
Nebo – Mary Jaggers Gardner
New Lebanon – Allie Fancher
Oak Grove – Amy Lindsey Lobb
Oak Hill– Ora Logsdon
Pascal – Louise Durrett
Perkins – Lesba Quissenberry
Pikeview – Carrie Lysle
Pine Grove – Alma Lawler
Pleasant Grove – Marjorie Handy
Pleasant Hill – Nancy Priddy
Powder Mills – Leigh Jones
Priceville – Hazel Noack
Reeds* – Henrietta Anderson
Rocky Hill – Alma Bybee
Roseburg – Lenora Waddell
Shadyland* – Mary Wilia Wood Mansfield
Uno – Laura S. Walton
Veach – Lillie May Cottrell
Walnut Grove – Lyna B. Johnson
Waterloo – Mary Lou Cooper
Watkins Bend – Mary Jo Fultz
Woodsonville* – Lutisha Davis
Courtesy of the Munfordville Tourism Commission 2017"
Marker Name: Hart County One-Room Schools 1945 – 46
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Other
Marker Number (for official markers): -BLANK-
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Munfordville tourism commission
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Visit Instructions:
A picture of the site or anything specific to the text on marker.