Over Two Million Dollars in Improvements For Marion and Vicinity Planned For 1954
Over two million dollars will be spent in Marion and vicinity during this year on new construction and the purchase of right–of-way for relocating of State Highway 13, according to figures compiled this week by the Marion Daily Republican. Continue reading
Longfellow School Opens To Students
Classes Moved from Temporary Quarter in Other Buildings
Two hundred eighty students were transferred Monday from their temporary quarters at other buildings to their new rooms at the Longfellow school. The transferred students had been assigned to Longfellow at the beginning of the term and attended classes at other schools awaiting completion of the new building which was occupied Monday for the first time. Continue reading
Longfellow Elementary School opened its doors on a snowy day in January 1955. Former teacher Emily Deason (30 years at Longfellow) recalls the following: “We were teaching our students on the lower level of the old Washington School building located where the Williamson County Courthouse is now located. Continue reading
