White School

White School was a two-room schoolhouse for white students that was located near the Glade Hill community in eastern Franklin County. It was built on a stone foundation, and it was heated with a stove. The building did not have electricity, running water, or indoor restrooms. Delma Lumsden and Mattie Holland were teachers at the school. By 1937, only one of the two classrooms was in use, and the other was in “a bad state of repair,” according to insurance agents who visited the school.

White School, c. 1930s
The Animo (FCHS yearbook, 1986)


White School, c. 1980s
Franklin County Historical Society


White School, 2023
Photograph by William B. Gibson