School History
On March 29, 1841, Phillip Eddington sold 4 acres of land for $5.00 as a meeting house by the of Mount Pleasant. Jacob Kefaver, Peter Kefaver, and James Eddington were named the trustees. The original land was located on Pitzer Road. The land was to be used for a school lot, a cemetery, and two churches, the Mount Pleasant Baptist and the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In a move to seek a better building site for a church building, the trustees traded the original property on Pitzer road for four acres on Mount Pleasant Boulevard, three to be used by the churches for a building and cemetery, and the other to be turned over to the Big Lick School District with a building to be used as a free school. This took place around July 31, 1873. Students had to pay around a dollar a month to attend. This school building later burned.
The first free school was on a little hill across from Pitzer Farm. It was a one room building 35 feet long and 20 feet wide. There was only 1 teacher for as many as seventy to eighty students. They came from Catawba, Vinton and Franklin County. This school also later burned.
A third school was constructed around 1910 and was built for about $800.00. It also burned May 8, 1924. On June 6, 1924 a new six room brick building built. It had no inside plumbing. It burned February 28, 1934.
Today's school was built in 1934 and completed in 1935. Since then a kitchen, additional classrooms, a cafeteria, multipurpose room and a kindergarten have been added.
By: J.G. 1997 (former student)