July 15, 2012 · 9:29 AM

Metter High School, 1910

This is now home to the Candler County Historical Society Museum.

National Register of Historic Places

Filed under --CANDLER COUNTY GA--, Metter GA

Tagged as --CANDLER COUNTY GA--, © Brian Brown/Vanishing Media, Georgia Landmarks, Georgia Schoolhouses, Greek Revival Architecture in Georgia, Metter GA, National Register of Historic Places

7 responses to “Metter High School, 1910”

Dr. Fay Stapleton

October 31, 2019 at 11:48 AM

My Mother, Sue Nell Jones Stapleton, graduated from Metter High School in this building in 1938. And I attended kindergarten there THREE years! My older sister went to kindergarten, and I was so lonely in the country and cried, so my Mother let me go when I was 3, 4 and 5! I remember the coal outside near the basement, and playground equipment that should have been declared “lethal.” Somehow we all survived….

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- Brian Brown
  
  November 6, 2019 at 10:47 AM
  
  Fay, it’s one of my favorite school buildings.
  
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Carolyn Reardon Davis

September 16, 2018 at 10:17 PM

I went to kindergarten in this building in 1945-46….Mrs Fay Bell was my teacher… in elementary school, we walked across the road to this building to the lunchroom on the second floor…they later built a lunchroom beside the elementary school

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Diane Thompson Dixon

May 6, 2014 at 11:03 PM

In 1949-1951, this building housed the first and second grades. Possibly other years. I attended there in those years. Mrs. Nonie Holloway was my first grade teacher on the first floor and Mrs. Bird was my second grade teacher on the second floor. If I remember correctly, the Draft Board held their night meetings on the second floor.

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David Robinson

September 23, 2013 at 8:57 PM

I went to kindergarten in the old high school building in about 1964. I guess that’s about the time the new high school building was opened up.

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Tom Robinson

July 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM

You’ve painted Metter as nice place to visit, with much history to explore. As always – good job with your lens, Brian.

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Fred Gleaton

July 15, 2012 at 10:25 AM

My father’s first cousin, Richard Barry, was the football coach at Metter HS from 1956-1959.

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