Schools

Pauline Mobley  February 7, 2010
Carroll Banner, Lake Providence, La., November 9,1889

We went out to the school house last Monday in company with Mr. W.S. Brown, the Parish Superintendent, and received a cordial welcome from Mr. Vincent, Miss Mattie Kell and Miss Dessie Bell, the teachers. It was a pleasure to look around and see so many bright faces busy over their books, and keeping such good order. The geometry class was called up, and it was not long before the sup't got mixed up with Master Moreau Purdy and an equilateral triangle. Some of the scholars in this class are quite young to be so far advanced, and it is much credit of Mr. Vincent, that the class is making such headway. From the principal's room, we went into Miss Mattie's, who had just sailed up the Atlantic ocean with Miss Jomay Egelly, and was landing on the shores of Massachusetts. Miss Matttie has been teaching in the public school ever since our boyhood days.

Thus was an hour spent in a profitable manner, and hope it will be our good fortune to again visit the schoolhouse, where the scenes of our childhood carry us back to bygone days- days which truly seem the brightest, treasured up in our memory as a priceless legacy, binding us to the golden hours of life by the external tie of love.

Banner-Democrat 27 Aug. 1892

submitted by Carolyn P. Avery 11/98
The new School Board for East Carroll was appointed Thursday of lastweek and is composed of the following gentlemen: John Riley, S.H. Mobberly. W.H. Benjamin. J.C. Bass, V. Montogomery, T.J. Powell, J.S. Milliken, and H.L. Newcomb. A goodly board, embracing an array of prominent and intelligent citizens that will devote their earnest efforts to the best interests of education in our parish.

School List

Adams School, Caraway Lake
Ashton School (historical), Millikin
Briarfield Academy, Lake Providence
Henderson School, Sondheimer
Lake Providence High School, Lake Providence
Lake Providence Junior High School, Lake Providence
Lake Providence School, Lake Providence
Lickskillet School (historical), Baxter Bayou
Monticello High School, Epps
Northside Elementary School, Lake Providence
Southside Elementary School, Lake Providence
Transylvania Elementary School, Transylvania
Winterfield School (historical), Lake Providence