Maury High School — Dandridge, Tennessee

Maury High School was located in the town of Dandridge, Tennessee in Jefferson County.

The school was constructed in 1929.  Maury High School remained in operation until 1975 when Jefferson County consolidated their high schools to form Jefferson County High School.

The school remained in use as a school until 1985 when a new elementary school was built to serve the Dandridge area.

Once the school closed the building was used for storage until 1995 when the school was closed to a private owner.

As recently as 2011 a push was made to restore the old school.  A link referencing those efforts can be found by clicking HERE.

Rocky Branch School — Wayne County, Kentucky

Rocky Branch School is located in the eastern part of Wayne County Kentucky near the McCreary County line between the communities of Rocky Branch and Coopersville on Kentucky State Route 92.

Rocky Branch School is a prime example of a school building built during President Franklin Roosevelt’s  New Deal and the WPA.

The school was built sometime in the 1930s and is built out of the same cut sandstone that was used at the Wayne County High School on down the road in neighboring Monticello that is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

At some point, probably in the 1960s the school recieved a small addition on the building’s south side.

Rocky Branch closed to students after the 1984-85 school year as Wayne County began a consolidation process that left them with more centralized schools in the county.