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Total expenditure in building the school was $46,400 paid in part by Henry county, the city of Paris and contributions from citizens. The building was designed by architect Reuben Harrison Hunt at a cost of $841.77. Joseph Tremby contracted for construction of the building, for which he was paid $28,946.89 and S. J. Veltman contracted for ...
The Robert E. Lee School is a historic school building located at 402 Lee Street, Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. It was built in 1893 and added to the National Register in 1988. History
Henry County is a county located on the northwestern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and is considered part of West Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,199. [2] Its county seat is Paris. [3] The county is named for the Virginia orator and American Founding Father Patrick Henry. [4]
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From 1846 to 1851, there was a brief experiment in Henry County with district free schools, which led to a violent political upheaval and culminated in abandonment of the experiment. According to Jean Hairston, the first superintendent of schools in Henry County was Greenberry T. Griggs, who served from 1870 to 1876. In 1871, he reported there ...
The present site of Paris was selected by five commissioners appointed to the task of choosing a county seat at the December 1822 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Henry County. Their choice was a 50-acre (20 ha) site, of which 37.5 acres (15.2 ha) were owned by Joseph Blythe and 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) owned by Peter Ruff; both ...
This is a list of public school districts in Tennessee, sorted alphabetically. The majority of school districts are operated by county governments, and some by city governments. The U.S. Census Bureau does not consider those to be independent governments.
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