Chambers County Alabama Photos.....Chambers County High School - 1923
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Contributed by Don L. Clark June 2006
Chambers County High School - 1923
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Chambers County High School - 1923
Note: This information is from "The Chambers County School Messenger". Volume I, Number 1 - December, 1923
The Official Board is the County Board of Education:
S. H. Oliver, Chairman; G. M. Barnett, Sec./Superintendent; J. L. Denney, Treasurer; C. F. Finney,
L. Lanier, W. M. Pearson and Watt Sorrell.
The faculty includes: Charles B. Sullivan, P. S. Owen, A. F. Riser, Laurene Thompson, Lera
Grady and Emma L. Smith.
The building was erected in 1900 but added to in 1912 and established as the County High
School. The school has grown from an enrollment of about 90 in 1912 to about 200. A new building
and equipment is very much needed but the law does not allow state aid on county high school
buildings, hence it is hard for a rural community like this to put up such a building as needed.
For the last five years the County High School has graduated upon an average of 40 students
per year. Nearly all of these graduates make teachers. Five trucks are operated to this school
from the following communities: Mount Olive, Pleasant Hill, Abanda, Penton, Chapel Hill, Red
Hill and Ebenezer. This community supports an elementary school of six grades also. It has
levied the maximum amount of district taxes.
The County High School won the State Championship in Basketball in the Spring of 1922,
and will be a strong contender again next Spring. The school raises upon an average of $500
per year through plays and games.
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Dormitory building at Milltown, ca. 1910
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Students pictured on the porch of dormitory/boarding house at Milltown, ca. 1910 are from
left to right (men): Willie(?) Edge, Schaeffer Lankford, Walter J. Sims (1893-1965), and
Harvey Edge. Women seated on steps from left to right: Lois Sims, Minnie Edge, Maggie Edge
and Florence Sims (Newman).
