Pocahontas School

Pocahontas, Hinds County, MS

From 1917 Survey of Hinds County Schools, John Aaron Hill was a Trustee (see below).

Pocahontas School, where many of the Hartley children went to school.


TEACHERS:
T. N. Touchstone, Principal, Pocahontas; Miss Oney Bradley, Pocahontas.

TRUSTEES:
E. K Middleton, W. H. Bell, J. A. Hill.

LOCATION:
This school is 14 miles northwest of Jackson and 6 miles northeast of Tinnin.

GROUNDS:
Five-acre lot; excellent playgrounds; a sufficient number of shade trees; grounds are being put in good order; two sanitary toilets.

BUILDINGS:
$4,000.00 building; three class rooms down stairs and auditorium and two small rooms up stairs; properly lighted; building is painted; in good repair and well kept.

EQUIPMENT:
Sixty single and 12 double patent desks; hyloplate blackboards; map; no library books; individual drinking cups; upright stoves with jackets.

ORGANIZATION:
Two teachers; 10 grades; 59 pupils in district; 58 pupils en­rolled; 46 daily average; canning, poultry, corn and baby beef clubs; com­munity meetings, monthly report cards.
First Class, making 99 points.

EXPENSES:
District Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 880.85
Teachers, County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600.00
Transportation, County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322.00
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.802.85