A few weeks ago, we happened upon abandoned Plainview Elementary school in Franklin County. It has been abandoned for years. The historical sign on the front of the building says it was built in 1900. I was amazed to look through the windows and see desks and wood burning heaters still in place.
Students of the Plainview School taken outside the school in 1909 (from the Georgia State Archives).
Amazingly, the classroom floor contains numbers that teachers must have used for a lesson or a game. The wood stove is in the middle of the room.
This old stove looks like it could be coal burning.
Some of the windows are broken but the Franklin Historical Society owns the property so maybe renovation is in the future of this historical country school.
The outside privy!! I can imagine students being outside at recess and tramping to this little building before heading back into the school.
[…] For photos on the inside, please visit the Cocoa Smiles blog. […]
[…] The school continued to provide educational services to the community until 1955, at which point it was shuttered and supposedly turned into a community center (though I’ve found no evidence it was used as such other than photos showing relatively modern fluorescent lighting fixtures hanging from the ceiling inside). Today it belongs to the Franklin County Historical Society, the once large windows are boarded up, and in general the building has been restored just enough to keep it from falling down. Pretty cool piece of history to stop and see. If you want to see images of the inside of the building, this blog has photos of the original blackboards (or well, green boards), desks, and probable coal burning stoves in the interior of the building, which are no longer visible due to the protective shutters over the windows: https://cocoasmiles.com/2016/02/29/abandoned-to-time/ […]