This building was donated to Heritage Park by the Baker County Board of Public Instruction to serve as a school museum, and its exterior addition was funded by Dewey and Lynn Burned in honor of Jimmy and Marie Rowe Burnsed, whose combined educational service to Baker County totaled 78 years. Jimmy Burnsed began teaching in 1922 as teacher and principal of the Taylor Community School, was elected school superintendent in 1937, served four terms, and made his first major act in 1937-38 the construction of Taylor School with grades 1-12 in the northern part of the county. In a 1979 interview, the couple recalled a period of county growth and difficult decisions, when about 14 rural schools averaging one to three rooms each needed consolidation and a high school was urgently needed in the north end of the county because students were being transported to Macclenny on dirt roads, sometimes traveling 52 miles round trip and taking as long as three hours one way. Marie Rowe Burnsed also recalled that in 1933 steel-framed school buses were required by law to replace earlier covered county buses made with wood frames, and that when she and Jimmy began teaching in Baker County, transportation had already progressed from horse and wagon to open-air trucks with topless cabs and rear bodies, where students sat on wooden seats along the sides and everyone got wet when it rained; because very few people owned cars, she and Jimmy rode to school with their students.