10 Things You Might Not Know About Nolensville

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4. Split Log School

A number of small or one room schools existed in the area. Recently, Williamson County Schools decided to build a new school on Split Log Road. This seems fitting, since an earlier one-room school gave the road its name.

In the picture at the top of this post, a Miss Cleo Smith is pictured watching her students at Split Log School in 1913.

The school, first built in the mid-1800s, was built of hand-split logs, thus the school and, later, road name. A local man, George Fly, donated the timber and furnished a team of six mules, a wagon and six hired men to move them to the school’s site. A second school, seen in the picture, was built in 1888 after the split-log structure burned. By 1927, 23 students attended in grades 1 to 8. Teachers made $65 a month.