Little Greenbrier School
Little Greenbrier School-Church | |
Location | 2 mi south of Wears Valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
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Nearest city | Gatlinburg, Tennessee |
Coordinates | 35°41′00″N 83°38′22″W / 35.6833°N 83.6394°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1882[2] |
NRHP reference No. | 76000168[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 11, 1976[2] |
The Little Greenbrier School is a former schoolhouse and church in the ghost town of
oxen teams. Dozens of Little Greenbrier residents, among them John Walker, father of the Walker Sisters, gathered on an agreed-upon day in January 1882 and raised the schoolhouse.[2]
Classes were first held at the Little Greenbrier School in Fall 1882. Richard Perryman was the first of 39 teachers who would teach at the school until its closure in 1936. Students throughout the Little River Valley attended the school, some making a 9-mile (14 km) daily journey from the
Primitive Baptist congregation, which established the cemetery on the other side of the road.[2]
The schoolhouse, located near what was once the center of the Little Greenbrier community, is one story with an
chestnut ceiling, and was accessed by a white pine door on iron hinges. The school's gabled roof is covered with rived oak shingles. The chimney, located in the center of the building, was built of bricks, and fitted with an iron pipe and cook stove.[2]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Paul Gordon, National Registration of Historic Places Nomination Form for Little Greenbrier School-Church, 31 July 1973. Retrieved: 2009-09-21.
- ^ Michal Strutin, History Hikes of the Smokies (Gatlinburg, Tenn.: Great Smoky Mountains Association, 2003), pp. 220-222.
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