Limestone County High School was established in Elkmont in 1912, with its original building on Evans Street where Elkmont High School now stands. The County Board of Education included Col. M. K. Clements as superintendent of education and board members Fred Gray, W. T. Stepp, G. R. Bullington, and N. R. Nichols, while Willis B. Vaughn was instrumental in establishing the school there. Because the new high school required certified faculty, Professor E. B. Baxter was hired as principal, and townspeople raised money to build him a house on Evans Street near the school as an incentive to accept the position. In 1915, Alma Loveless, Beulah Nichols, Martha Nichols, and Eddie Stepp became the first graduates. Near Elkmont, Alton Delmore and Rabon Delmore, known as the Delmore Brothers, were born into poverty as the sons of tenant farmers and emerged from a strong tradition of gospel and Appalachian folk music to become country music pioneers and Grand Ole Opry stars in the 1930s. Blending gospel-style harmonies with quicker traditional folk guitar work and the blues, they helped create the emerging genre of country music, wrote more than one thousand songs, including "Brown's Ferry Blues," "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar," and "Fifteen Miles from Birmingham," and were later inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001, with their contribution also recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.