The romantic history of Farragut High
School never grows old to the citizens of Farragut Community. There will
remain with the people always the respect and admiration for those
pioneer rural educators of East Tennessee who met at Campbell Station
and raised the funds to build the High School among the first rural High
Schools in the United States.
The first building was erected in 1904 on
part of the Estate of Mr. W. A. Doughty, northeast of Campbell
Station.
This building was hardly well established
until it was burned, but those respected citizens were not to be
vanquished. They erected a new building in 1905 on the site of the
old one.
This High School was named for the famous
Civil War Admiral, who was a native of East Tennessee, having been born
in the vicinity of the community, David Glasgow Farragut.
The school progressed from 1906 to 1918,
graduating many prominent citizens. One only has to see the lives
and characters of Farragut graduates to know the worth-whileness [sic]
of such a school.
In 1918 the teacherage [sic] was erected
giving the principal a home.
As Farragut has always been the pioneer
of rural high schools she continued to be. In 1920 the first
County Gymnasium was erected, thus giving Farragut's students superior
athletic advantages.
Then in 1924 the County came to the aid
of the School and erected the Grammar School Building, thus making
Farragut the first consolidated Rural School in the United States.
Thus Farragut has progressed to its
present standing.
Farragut is recognized nationally and
internationally as a model rural High School. At the Panama
Exposition Farragut was selected as the Model High School.
Farragut has not only the loyal citizens
of the community to thank for this wonderful history, but her long line
of worthy men and the wonderful women who have been the education
leaders of the school.
One of the greatest men prominent in
Farragut History is P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education of
President Wilson's Administration.
In all these and others Farragut respects
as founders of her wonderful historical traditions.
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