From 1892 to 1957, the Highway community was built around Highway School and included two general stores, a barber shop, a blacksmith shop, grain grinding mills, churches, and family residences. Community life featured an active ladies home demonstrations club, and in 1931 a community builders club organized efforts to improve homes, schools, roads, and farming, including demonstrations on contour farming and terracing and instruction for high school boys in surveying terrace lines for farmers. Electricity first came to the community on Dec. 24, 1939, through the Northfork Electric Co-Op. The brick building for Consolidated District No. 3 was dedicated on Friday, April 14, 1922, after 1921 elections approved consolidation of Taylor and Sadler schools and parts of Ural and Poarch schools, approved school bonds, and established the new district under the name Highway, taken from the nearby Dallas-Canadian-Denver Highway. Highway School served the community until it closed in 1957, and its students were remembered for scholastic achievement, citizenship, 4-H Club participation, and athletics, supported by strong family and community spirit. A school lunch program began in 1936 under Supt. A.N. Wilson and Mrs. Lyda Jane Carruthers, whose work in promoting school children's health and welfare earned her a certificate of merit from Governor E.W. Marland on June 26, 1938. The school building was heated first by a coal-fired steam boiler and later by natural gas after 1926, relied on outdoor privies and hand-pumped cistern water for many years, and gained piped water, bathrooms, and showers in the early 1950's. On July 3, 1971, the Highway School Alumni Association was formed, and alumni, parents, and neighbors have met annually since then.