Claiborne County, Tennessee

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Claiborne County is located in the northeastern region of Tennessee.  It is bordered by the following Tennessee counties: Campbell, Grainger, Hancock and Union.  It is also adjacent to Bell and Whitley counties in Kentucky and Lee County, Virginia.

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SCHOOL HISTORIES & RECORDS

Lonesome Valley School

"Lonesome Valley School" is a typical one-room rural school located at the head of Lonesome Valley.  For years this one-room school building was furnished with good home-made desks and the building was well lighted and heated, compared to the buildings of the county at that time.  The prestige that this school held is shown by the fact that it was the first rural school to install modern school desks.  This was done by the community and the Board of Education.  No school of the county was more fortunate in securing good teachers, which was probably encouraged by the interest shown by patrons of that community.  The most important feature of the record of the Lonesome Valley School is that it has furnished as many or more teachers to Claiborne County than any other rural school in the county.  At one time after a very successful teacher had taught at this place seventeen persons were able to pass the teachers' examination and to teach the following year.  During this time eight of the students who received their training in this school have received degrees from Lincoln Memorial University.  Three of these graduates have been president of their graduating classes at the University.  Edgar Holt was president of the class of '21, A. W. Baldwin, '22, and Perry E. DeBusk, '23.  Three of the eighteen graduates  have served as Superintendents of Claiborne County - W. E. Baldwin, James W. Baldwin, and Perry E. DeBusk.  Two others are successful city superintendents of city schools.  Edgar Holt is superintendent of schools of Orange City, Iowa, and A. W. Baldwin is superintendent of city schools of Covington, Georgia.  James W. Baldwin is now professor of education in the University of Texas.  The other graduates are J. D. Earl, A. V. Baldwin, and T. L. Mayes, and are all successful teachers.  Miss Dorothy H. Goin, who attended the same school, is a sophomore in the University now and will very likely complete her college training here.  This is more than one-third of the graduates of this county receiving degrees from the University.  Five of the eight graduates have taught at the Lonesome Valley School.  Source: "A Real Record at Lonesome Valley," Lincoln Memorial University, 1926, online database (http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/ : accessed 8 April 2018).


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