In 1904 the original eight room, two-story, brick Lincoln School was constructed on a 3-acre site at 915 W. Chestnut St. This building served as an elementary school until it was torn down when a new Lincoln School was constructed at 400 Morningside Dr. (northeast section of town) and occupied in 1993. The site of the original Lincoln School is now the location of a large, privately- owned apartment complex in 2006.

(This information was obtained from A. C. (Cliff) Storme, Louis Fluck, and newspaper articles published by Violet Grisham and from the personal knowledge of Thomas Wimberly, in January, 2006)