Mountain Hill District Consolidated School [side 2]

The school had 9 classrooms and a 436-seat auditorium to serve both elementary and high school students. In this auditorium Chest Atkins, member of Country music hall of Fame and a student at Mountain Hill School during the 1930´s perfected his distinctive guitar style. The Mountain Hill Schoolhouse Foundation. Inc., formed to save the school building from demolition, has been instrumental in restoring the building as a community center. The building is owned by Harris County.

Erected by the Mountain Hill Schoolhouse Foundation, Inc. and the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, 2000.

Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.

Original page, with additional info, here.

Photo credit: The Cheyniacs.