Greenvine Schools

Public education in the rural community of Greenvine began in 1880, when the Greenvine School was established near this site. Students, predominantly of German descent and Lutheran and Baptist in faith, first attended classes taught in German at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church parsonage. Classes later moved to a site near the Greenvine Baptist Church Cemetery and finally to a building 70 feet south of this site. A school for local African American children known as the Waller Chapel School, 1.75 miles southeast, was established in 1895. Classes were held in a wood-frame building that also served as a house of worship for the Waller Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation. In 1949, after schools in the Greenvine, Latium, and Burton communities were consolidated, the Greenvine schools closed. Local students then began attending Burton Rural High School, which offered 12 grades of instruction. The last Greenvine schoolhouse was moved to the new school site, and the Waller Chapel Schoolhouse continued to be used for church services until 1965.

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