Junction schools operated at three other sites before moving to this campus in 1908, after Nancy Patterson Vaughn deeded land to school trustees who commissioned a two-story stone building here. In 1912, the state designated Junction as a first class high school, and in 1915 the campus expanded with an athletic field bounded by a hedgerow of elm trees. After a new high school was built, the site became Junction Grammar School and later Junction Middle School. Many buildings were added to the campus, including a WPA gymnasium in the mid-1930s. Junction became an independent school district in 1936 and annexed most rural county schools in 1947. More than a century after its establishment, the site continues to serve students.