Athens School

Athens School (sometimes referred to as Ole Athens) was operating in the Athens community of northwest White County in the early 1900s. It replaced the nearby Chapel Hill School, and was about 150 yards west of the present site of Athens Church of Christ.
Athens was established in a log building in 1900. On June 25, 1910 T.C. and Francis Howell deeded property for $25 to the White County Board of Education, and again on November 2, 1916. This property is believed to be related to the Athens School.
Athens was open at least as late as 1915. Prior to that date, a frame building was erected, which the school shared with the Church of Christ, organized sometime before 1932.
==List of teachers==
*Albert Baker
*Mary Bryan Bandy
*Joe Cole
*Robert Doan
*Maude Mitchell Fancher
*Sidney Fancher
*Ella Southard Floyd Frasier (around 1906-07)
*Hershell Green
*Notie Mae Elrod Medlin (1915)
*Charlene Oliver
*Otto Prater
*Milus Southard
*Esco Sullivan
*Beulah Knowles Sutton
*Charles Oliver (1915)
==Photo gallery==
athens school 1915.png|Athens School students and teachers Charles Oliver and Notie Mae Elrod, 1915
Athens school 1906.png|Athens School students and teacher Ella Floyd, around 1906 or 1907
==References==
*Cantrell, Gerry R. History of White County Churches. Sparta: Unknown Publisher, 2006.
*White County Retired Teachers' Association. Schools of White County Tennessee 1806-2006. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.
Category:Defunct White County schools
Category:Athens community