HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

Booker Knob School

Circa 1860

We are not sure the name of this school is actually Booker Knob School, but in an old family Bible, Maggie Dickinson states that all her children went to school at Booker Knob. We assume this is the school. It is located on the Denmark/ Leighton Road, near Leighton. This school was a subscription school, as Madison County did not have public schools at the time. Madison County took over the operations of the school in 1907 and this is when we think the name of the school was changed from Booker Knob to Leighton. The school was closed around 1929, when it consolidated with the school at Mercer. After it closed, the school building was converted into a house. Plans are for the BBCHA to restore it to its original use as a school. As far as is known, there are only two former students of this school living in 2008 - Thomas Bond and Martha Curlin Ray.