Grants Lick Schools
Abbott Elementary-was a one room frame school located at the intersection of Pleasant Ridge and Boone Smith Roads close to the Campbell-Pendleton County line. It was also known as Forest Grove and was in use by 1885. It closed in 1936 when it consolidated with Grants Lick.
Abbott Elementary 1923-1924 Grades 1-8
Abbott Elementary 1924-1925 Grades 1-8
Abbott Elementary 1925-1926 Grades 1-8
Abbott Elementary 1926-1927 Grades 1-8
Abbott Elementary 1927-1928 Grades 1-8
Abbott Elementary 1928-1929 Grades 1-8
Abbott Elementary 1929-1930 Grades 1-8
Baker Elementary-was a log one room school built before 1879 in a wooded area off Clay Ridge Road in the Grants Lick area. It was also known as Union as well as Oak Land Elementary and was closed in 1936 to consolidate with Grants Lick.
Baker Elementary 1926-1927 Grades 1-8
Baker Elementary 1927-1928 Grades 1-8
Baker Elementary 1928-1929 Grades 1-8
Baker Elementary 1929-1930 Grades 1-8
Clay Ridge Elementary-was a frame school building with one room opened in 1890 and closed in 1936. It was first known as the Gosney School.
Clay Ridge
Elementary School 1911-1912
Gosney School-built in the 1870s by Benjamin
Coleman Gosney for his children to receive an education. It was later
known as the Clay Ridge Elementary School. and later generations lived in the
cabin. It was sold in 1911 and moved to Alexandria, then moved to A J
Jolly Park in 1978 and finally to Northern Kentucky
University in 1982.
Gosney School
Picture and Article
Grants Lick Elementary School #1-was located on a hill above Kenton Station and Clay Ridge Roads and was in use by 1869. It was used until 1916.
Grants Lick Elementary School #2-was also built on a hill, up on Clay Ridge Road from the first building. This was a one room frame building built in 1916 and used until 1936. It was located roughly where the ball field is now in front of the third building.
Grants Lick Elementary School 1923-1924 Grades 1-8
Grants Lick Elementary School 1924-1925 Grades 1-8
Grants Lick Elementary School #3-By 1936 schools were being consolidated and this site was chosen for a new building. The WPA built the school in 1935-36. Still in use additions were added in 1951, 1961, and the 1980s. Old Colonial in design it may be the most attractive looking of all the schools in the county.
Oakland School-was a one room
school house on the Thomas Jefferson Baker property. Opened in the 1800s
and and used until 1936.
1901 photo of
school and students
1901 photo of students and teacher, Clarence Baker
The following brief history was provided by
Lillie Dale Baker
Smith.
Written in 1963.
At Grants Lick was a one room school building. Besides using it for school, meetings of various kinds, plays, pageants, lectures, spelling bees, etc. were held there. In the surrounding territory were the following school buildings all one room and built mostly of logs; Oakland, Forest Hill, Aspen Grove, Pleasant Ridge, Clay Ridge and Hopeful. The children walked to and from school carrying their books, slates and pencils (tablets were unknown then) and also their noon lunch. All of these schools were consolidated.
In the year 1935 a new school building was erected in Grants Lick with nine class rooms, a gymnasium and a well equipped lunch room. A new addition was built and opened for classes in 1962 with five modern equipped class rooms, a large visual aids room, modern rest rooms, also a principal's office. There are now 14 class rooms with 14 teachers, also a physical education instructor, principal and full time office secretary.
This year, 1963, there are 430 pupils enrolled. Recently city water was installed. We are now expecting installation of equipment for television classes in the near future. Considering the vast differences in the conveniences then and now Grants Lick is proud of the great number of professional men and women, teachers, ministers, lawyers and those of other professions who had their start in this precinct. Also a majority of homes are modern and with electric installed, have all conveniences.
Professor M H Rhoads was the first principal of the Grants Lick School after consolidation. Present teachers are: Thomas McArter-principal; Jack Martin-physical education; Mrs. Dorothy Schafer-First Grade; Mrs. Marie Siry-First Grade; Mrs. Dorothy West and Miss Sprouse-Second Grade; Mrs. Estelle Martin-Third Grade; Mrs. Field-Third Grade; Mrs. Violet Fillhardt and Mr. Mahan-Fourth Grade; Mrs. Willavene Yelton and Miss Evans-Fifthy Grade; John Gillin and Mr. Mayfield-Sixth Grade; Karl DeHaven-Seventh and Eighth Grades; Mrs. Helen Gosney-Seventh Grade; Harold Barton-Eighth Grade.
Other prominent teachers formerly of this community, some retired and some deceased are, Miss Ethel Morris, Mrs. Pearl Gray Rainey, Mrs. Vella Baker Johnston, Mrs. Lora Gray Webster, Mrs. Goldie Pearson-Chalk, Mrs. Bonnie Kiser Lickert, Mrs. Mable Daniel Baker, Edward Baker, S A Maddox, Henry Harrison, and Foster Yelton.