CAMPBELL COUNTY HISTORICAL

LAFOLLETTE, TN

The Campbell County Historical Society is a non-profit organization located in LaFollette, Tennessee. The society is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of Campbell County and its people. The society was founded in 1968 by a group of local residents who recognized the need to preserve the county's history.

The society operates a museum that houses a collection of artifacts, photographs, and documents related to the county's history. The museum is open to the public and offers a glimpse into the county's past. The exhibits focus on a variety of topics, including the county's early settlers, the coal mining industry, and the impact of the Civil War on the area.

In addition to the museum, the society also offers educational programs and events for the public. These programs include lectures, workshops, and tours of historic sites in the area. The society also publishes a quarterly newsletter that includes articles on the county's history and updates on the society's activities.

The Campbell County Historical Society is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Campbell County. Its museum and programs provide a window into the county's past and help to ensure that its history is not forgotten.

CAMPBELL COUNTY HISTORICAL is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in LAFOLLETTE TN. US MID #8404700327

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

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Oak Grove Rosenwald School - Sharps Chapel, TN This school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. Here is the text of the Register listing.

Constructed in 1935, the Oak Grove School is located at the intersection of Oak Grove Road and Brantley Road, in Sharps Chapel, Union County, Tennessee. The school is surrounded by rural agricultural land, featuring wooded areas, rolling hills, and large swaths of cleared farmland. The two-room school building was constructed from the 1924 Community School Plans issued by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, out of Nashville. Reflecting “Plan Number 20,” the school is a one-story, rectangular-plan building, constructed of wood frame on a continuous brick foundation. The building has an exterior of wood weatherboard siding with a side-gable roof clad in asphalt shingles. Some modest Craftsman details are visible in the overhanging eaves and exposed rafter ends. The school retains a high degree of integrity. Notable features include the meticulously preserved double-hung wood sash windows, and the interior wood partition door. The single alteration since its 1935 construction dates to the mid-1960s, with the addition of an ADA-accessible door and wood ramp on the rear elevation.

Setting:
The Oak Grove School is located in a rural agricultural area in the Sharps Chapel vicinity, in Union County, Tennessee. Following recommendations from the Community School Plans, the school is oriented towards the east/west, with the façade as the southwest elevation, set back approximately 175 feet from present-day Brantley Road. The school is surrounded by cleared agricultural and wooded land. Located to the southwest of the school building is a small waste collection site owned by Union County, featuring several moveable dumpsters and a graveled parking lot. This site was historically used as an outdoor athletic facility for the students, featuring a baseball field and playground equipment. The field and playground are no longer extant.

Exterior

Oak Grove School demonstrates a standardized plan for a two-teacher school with an industrial room. The school is a one-story building with a cross-gable metal roof, clad in wood weatherboard siding, resting on a continuous brick foundation. In keeping with the standardized plans, the school lacks elaborate detailing, showing Craftsman influences only in the exposed rafter tails and widely-overhanging eaves.

The façade (southwest elevation) is five bays wide and features a projecting center room with four adjoining, nine-over-nine, double-hung wood sash windows and a front-gable roof. On either side of the centrally located room are two entrances, covered with simple metal shed-roof awnings with diagonal wood bracings. The entrances are recessed into the primary structure, located in small vestibules accessible by two concrete steps. Within the vestibules are original five-panel wood doors, topped by three-light wood transoms. The first and last bays feature paired six-over-six, double-hung wood sash windows.

The northwest elevation is a solid wood weatherboard wall, with one rectangular vent cut into the brick foundation and a triangular, louvered gable end vent.

The northeast elevation features two long bands of windows, with one for each classroom. Each band contains six adjoining nine-over-nine, double-hung wood sash windows surrounded by simple wood trim. The only modification to the original structure is visible on this elevation, with a secondary entry centrally located between the two bands of windows. This entry, featuring a non-historic six-panel door surrounded by simple wood trim, was added in the mid-1960s and is accessible via a long ramp that extends along the building toward the north elevation. The ramp is wood and features simple square wood balusters. The ramp and rear entryway provides access to the building for people with physical disabilities.

The southeast elevation is similar to the northwest elevation, featuring a solid wood weatherboard wall with one rectangular vent cut into the brick foundation. A small square entry is also cut into the brick foundation to provide access to the crawl space.

Historic integrity

Integrity of design is immaculately preserved in the Oak Grove School; the original Plan # 20 documented in the Community School Plans remains the same, with modern alterations (a bathroom replacing one cloakroom) adhering to the original plan. A rear entryway, added in the mid-1960s to allow access for people with disabilities, is unobtrusive to the original plan. The school building also retains its original materials on both the exterior and interior, including the wood double-hung sash windows, weatherboard siding, wood flooring, wood beadboard interior wall covering, and interior doors. The most notable of the original materials are the wood partition doors that were installed to divide the two classrooms. Despite decades of neglect, a clear integrity of workmanship is evident in the schoolhouse as the materials and underlying structure of the building have been rehabilitated instead of replaced. Drawing from the retention of all original materials and complimented by the surrounding rural agricultural area, the Oak Grove School retains integrity of feeling and association that reflect the slow spread of early-twentieth century educational practices and plan book architecture through Tennessee’s rural areas.

Contact CAMPBELL COUNTY HISTORICAL

CAMPBELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
235 E CENTRAL AVE
LAFOLLETTE
TN
37766

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MID #	8404700327
Name	CAMPBELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Alternate Name	CAMPBELL COUNTY HISTORICAL
Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	581959153
NTEECC	A82
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201303
INCOME	0
REVENUE	0
LAT/LONG	36.382608, -84.120868
CODES	FIPS State Code: 47 FIPS County Code: 013 US Census Tract: 950600 US Census Block: 2038