In the early 1900s, students from Arab enrolled at Albertville High School because Arab did not have a high school. One group, called the “Brindlee Mountain Boys,” traveled to Guntersville by buggy and then by train to Albertville to attend school, and because the journey was so difficult they were often away from home for months. As more students yearned for an education, residents decided to build a high school in Arab. Many mortgaged their farms to raise money, and the townspeople made a cooperative and sacrificial effort, laboring long hours cutting logs and hauling them to saw mills and planers to complete the inside. The exterior was built with bricks made on site at a kiln operated by parents twenty-four hours a day, students staged plays and talent shows to help pay the remaining debt, and the land had originally been owned by town founder Stephen Tuttle Thompson and was donated by his descendants.