With special thanks to Mary Ann Radabaugh for updating this 1935 history in the early 1990’s. Without her doing this, all this history might have been lost. A Subscription School is one where parents paid according to the number of children they had in school. Teachers stayed in homes in the community for free. JamesContinue reading “Earliest Schools in Gilmer County West Virginia”
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Roaming the Back Roads
by Genny Kirkpatrick, written for the Retired Gilmer County School Employees’ News Letter Trace Fork School Gilmer County WV One Room Schools Trace Fork School was first held in an old round log building about one-half mile from the mouth of Trace Fork where L.H. “Dode” Lydick later lived. Teachers were James Taylor (1867) andContinue reading “Roaming the Back Roads”
