Memories Of New Hope School Days Continue To Flow

Photos from Collection of Glenn Dale and Kathryn Carter

The New Hope School class of 1903 pose in front of the first school building, which opened in 1896 and burned down in 1936.
The New Hope School class of 1903 pose in front of the first school building, which opened in 1896 and burned down in 1936.

The old New Hope School house may be gone from the corner of New Hope Road and Gaddy Road.

But there is a wealth of memories in the community from those who attended and their families.

Skip Myers, Fontella (Kidney) Williams, and Reesa (Branson) Heilaman all went to New Hope School before it closed after the 1968-69 school year.

Myers and Williams both attended the first through eighth grades offered…