The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-06-22
History Of the. Big Stone Cap
Public School


s., ,~erlaatea.ica Essay BY Mics Joliet Natb
Va iI'i.sf -H- IIlf
4 u ef,l1s aff nui r.i1 e,ft
.Ahe hiAqlsi9i feur Big stener Gar
FtehpoN QsR3,sotft Cd hack io.a.iime en-,
vca rE,aisns Shch tiais tord rks Gated IA,
l,,ll tceii Fortsf' OF oPo-eu-- Riserr A,
illl't i'afc ahsrsivas-tn odd sniFlfr- used
81 shpresaai .elloa diigouaiiy aero..
| thhf ti'trffeia ;te cemetery. Gov. John
slkrFFyd Qt Yisinia. lecturcd in thi.
building iu the year 1855
1hcre-i- no way Of Gudine out shether
81 NOT there uss amy school after that
date io' a space Of trentv- six wears. In
1881, Jackie n. Jones. OF East stone Can.
and Bette Narcr. OF Zee County. taught f.
hive months school in the little log house
on Che hill at the iefi OF Wood Avenue.
aud near the present school site. one
little boy loved school 90 we'll that he had
to he whipped neari, every day before he
"onia consent &C. go. be would take his
dinner bucket, go sit ou the fence and
leave tho rest 20 bic mother. who usual,
assisted him TO school next DAY with 4
long hickory
The following aud last term. Mr.. W r..
Kennedy conducted the school. Jackie
Jones laugh, again lsos on Pearl Stree,
dr. heuuedy, ga last. taught in borse.
no" torn down, on Fact Fifth Street. be-
tween the homes Of Air. W. b. Nickel.
aud Mr. D. b. Coz.
ln 'hc spring Of lss5. The school house
80 Sulphur Springs was huilt One acre
ior the grounds was given by Ne. 4. n
Horton, formerly ovner Of Poplar Him.
a"d The southwestern part Of she town.
oith the UNDERWRITING that if the school
houses we're not built, the land should lie
returned 90 him tor other purposes. Mr.
j.. J Glass, OF Lee County. was the prin.
cinal OF this school for one term. lu the
iail OF ise0, Mr. n NJ Wells. vino was
principal, became iii and Judge Il. A. ".
Skeenc finished the term. The ne,t
teacher was Mack Cambridge. OF Pcnns,l-
vania, the "Great Democrat" as he called
himsclt Ia 1851. w.-B. Kabourne VA.
ihc instructor. Tais year school both
pab.io aud private, was taught for one
'essio" only. ia the Dun House by Mrs
Parrish, OF Bristol MIR. Konneas
followed ia 1859; Mr. %. 2. Parsons in
1870.
ho'iag the great boom iu this country.
.he Ihompkins house was bait for
school and la 1880 Miss Lille Goodlos /
Taught there.
In this yesr bonds amounting to sts. 200 /
'ero voted by the town for toe purpose
# boildiug a school on the lot now oeeu-
lied hy the Christian Church -and Mr.
ohn Taylor's residence. but. because
i the fact that the town was new aud
ouid not readily Obtain credit. the bond.
fere not sold and the matter dropped.
In the fsli OF this year, Mr.. William Il
bedford "the tutor from New England"
s be Is called ia Mr. Fox's story, a
risis Tor the Guard, came TO pfepars
No young men for Harvard. He was q. 4
right visionary man aud thoroue
ampeteut 60 instruct the two young
eutuckiaus.
In 1881, NJ W T. Kennedy taught in
he iompSins house. Stonega Academy
as boii' by Mr.. Bedford the fall Of this
ar, The name he got from Big STONE
ar, es connecting the words Cap and
tone aud eating on p" Stone Ga--tbeu
slightly changing TIE accent-Sto
ga Ar. Beekfose's vas more than
''iiiAn' saeeess these two sessions. His
sisiaots we're, Mr. Il. A. Hanson, Mr.. F =
Smith, Miss Sallie Hughes and Miss F"
HE Goodloo "
In 1852, Mr.. VT. Kenuedv. Who -. a
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