History of Bibb County, Alabama, Schools by Professor A. W. Hayes (Part 1)

Part 1 of article written by Professor A. W. Hayes, May 1, 1935

A movement is being put forth to get a brief history of some of the older schools in Bibb County, and the writer has been asked to write briefly of the school in the Woodstock – Green Pond community. 

The citizens of this vicinity have always set great store on their school. With varying degrees of prosperity, this has been an educational center nearly a century. In the early 1840’s the interest in education ran high. As proof of this, the fact is mentioned that in 1846 a stock company was formed, a tract of land secured, and adequate buildings erected of pretentious character: – a two-story school building, a two-story dwelling for the principal of the school and a large dormitory for the accommodation of the young people who were being attracted to the school.

(Photo courtesy of historian Vicki George Kes.)

All three of these buildings were still standing during the early recollection of this writer, 1860 to 1870.

In the late 1840s and 1850s the school flourished greatly. During these years a noted educator named Meriwether was principal, who later associated himself with a young man named Lelias Law. These two men contacted the school until 1857 when a young man by the name of W. W. Moore succeeded to the principal ship of the school. He continued at the head of the school until 1861. In that year. In that year  quite a number of young men and women in the adjoining community wanted to attend school so their parents built a schoolhouse and paid Mr. Moore a handsome sum to move the school there.

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To be continued