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Description
Title
Mt
.
Zion
School
:
close
up
of
sign
Creator(s)
West
,
Carroll
Van
,
photographer
Date
2014
Coverage
2010-2019
Property name
Mt. Zion School
Additional property name
Mt
.
Zion
CME
Church
;
Mt
.
Zion
Worship
Center
Property type
School
Community Name
Bradford, Gibson County, TN
Description
Color
photograph
of the
Mt
.
Zion
School
sign
with the
school
in the
background
. The
wrought-iron
sign
reads
, "The
Old
Mt
.
Zion
Negro
School
,
Built
1870
by
Freed
Slaves
,
Last
Class
1962.
"
Historical Notes
In
1855
,
David
P
.
Hamilton
deeded
one
acre
of
land
to
A.P
Foster
,
T.S
Freeman
and
G
.
B
Rust
for the
sum
of
five
dollars
. The
deed
dictated
that the
land
was for the
establishment
of
“Mount
Zion
meeting
house.”
Tradition
states
that a
rural
school
called
Mt
.
Zion
School
was
built
in
1870
by
“freed
slaves.”
In
1915
,
Mt
.
Zion
had
one
teacher
and
hosted
Grades
1-6
.
Mt
.
Zion
was
one
of
seventy-two
separate
schools
in the
county
at that
time
. This
leaves
a
possible
construction
date
ranging
between
1870
(as
the
community
suggests)
and
1915
(when
the
school
is
known
to
exist)
.
Though
the
school
is
listed
in
1915
as
hosting
Grades
1-6
,
children
beyond
the
age
of
elementary
school
children
attended
Mt
.
Zion
.
Photographic
evidence
from
1925
suggests
that
possible
ages
could
range
from
four
or
five
to
teenagers
. The
last
class
to
leave
Mt
.
Zion
was the
class
of
1962
. Its
legacy
lives
on in the
stories
of
Gibson
County
community
members
and has a
rich
history
still
yet
untapped
.
Collection Name
Southern History Documentary Projects
Subject-LCSH
School buildings
Signs and signboards
Subject-AAT
Schools
Signs
Subject-TGM
Schools
Type
Still image
Genre
Photograph
Medium
Computer disk
Processing notes
Digital
files
retrieved
from a
flashdrive
;
Latitude
and
Longitude
coordinates
determined
through
Google
maps
.
Copyright status
Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Contributing Institution
Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use
Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
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