Doe Creek School - 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. The last class here was in 1949.
Waymark Code: WM17G7H
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2023
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TEXT ON THE TENNESSEE HISTORICAL MARKER (Marker No. 4D 59)
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.
Original or Re-creation?: Original
Year the school first opened.: 01/01/1870
Year the school closed.: 01/01/1949
Is the schoolhouse still open as a school?: no
Address:
2330 Doe Creek Road.
Sardis , TN United States
38371
Web Address (if available): [Web Link]
Does the school offer 19th century classroom reenactments or day camps?: no
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