Oak Grove Dorm - 1963 - Jackson County
Photos submitted by: Carolyn York
Jackson County, Oak Grove Dorm, 1963
The name of the school comes from the Oak Grove
Missionary Baptist Church history . ...."The Oak Grove's first meeting house
was a log building on top of the hill beside the old road about 1/2 mile south
of the present location. Several years later a new building was constructed
below the present building. After the closing of the Jackson County Baptist
Institute they moved into one of the school buildings, which is the present
location....
....In 1925 the Jackson County Baptist Institute
was moved from Egypt to Oak Grove. That year Oak Grove's contribution to
missions was $1,813.89, must of it of course, going to the school.
Mary Bingham Coffey attended the Jackson County
Baptist Institute. When she was in the third grade she attended the Blackwater
School which was a seven month school. When the public schools closed many of
the Blackwater students walked to Oak Grove for two more months. She remembers
they were just building the dorm when she stopped going. The students took the
lunches from home. A Creech ran a store near the school and the teacher would
let them go and get things for her. She believes the teacher was Ms.
Langdon.
Mable Wyrick Bingham remembered walking from
Highway 30 through the woods in Wyrick Hollow on a wagon trail to attend church
at Oak Grove.
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