Tallapoosa County High School

An 1907 act of the Alabama Legislature called for the construction of a new public high school in each county, and officials chose Dadeville as the site of Tallapoosa County High School. Residents raised private funds and used a bond issue to buy a five-acre Lafayette Street lot from brothers W. S. and T. S. Herren and to build the school. Completed in September 1910, the original building had six classrooms and an auditorium, and it enrolled fifty-five students—twenty-nine females and twenty-six males—in grades eight through twelve. Instruction included science, mathematics, history, art, music, typing and stenography, and languages including English, Latin, French, and German, and the school colors were black and gold. Students from outside town boarded with Dadeville families for a nominal fee. A 1926 expansion added classrooms for seventh-grade instruction. Tallapoosa County High School closed at the end of the 1948-49 school year, after which students attended the combined Dadeville Schools.

Dadeville, Alabama · United States