MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE, LEFTWICH SCHOOL

Leftwich Bridge School, Grades 1-8, 1948

1st Row: Nelda Cothran (Bobo), Shirley Fay Hardison, Jimmy Tomlinson, Wayne Sharp, Tommy Liggett, Hubert Marshall Cheek.
2nd Row: Glenda Clay (Bolton), Douglas Chumbley, Larry Cheek, Carolyn Lee, Sondra Clay (Stoffel), Barbara Liggett (Stoffel), Landon (Moose) Rummage, James Malcolm Sampson, Garner Tomlinson, Bobby Thornhill.
3rd Row: Kenneth Allen Jones, Gwendolyn Sampson, Betty Lou Jones (Hill), Janice Hardison, Joel Hardison, Donald Cheek, Virgil Lee, Paul Thomas Webb, Billy Liggett.
4th Row: Mrs. Louise (Ross) Jones, Juanita Sampson, Norma Thornhill (Johnson), Juanita Fitzgerald, Joanne Jones (Martin), Nancy Liggett (Davis), Valton (Fuzzy) Rummage, Tony Lee.

I am attaching a photo of the students that were attending the Leftwich Bridge Community school in 1948. 

I have not been able to find much in the way of historical information about this school. I attended this school during my first and second grades. My mother also attended this school during the late Teens and early Twenties. I know nothing of when the building was constructed or for how long it actually served the community as a school.

The school was closed at the end of the 1948-49 school year and we were transferred to the then new Rock Springs School for the 1949-50 school year, no more walking to school, buses were used then. Ownership reverted to the then current owner of the property on which the school was built. The building was set ablaze a few years later by persons unknown.

Unfortunately this great old community, which once sported a store, church, school, and several other businesses, was destroyed by TVA with its false attempts to build the Columbia Dam. Wayne Sharp 1 Oct 2008

Photo and info Donated by Wayne Sharp. If you would like to discuss this school e-mail me at: Wayne Sharp: tnpapa@hotshotwireless.com
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