This is now home to the Candler County Historical Society Museum.
National Register of Historic Places
This is now home to the Candler County Historical Society Museum.
National Register of Historic Places
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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….
Fay, it’s one of my favorite school buildings.
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
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.
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.
You’ve painted Metter as nice place to visit, with much history to explore. As always – good job with your lens, Brian.
My father’s first cousin, Richard Barry, was the football coach at Metter HS from 1956-1959.