Baxter Schoolhouse Photos

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The Baxter Community Center — the old schoolhouse — as seen from the front.
Another view of the Baxter Community Center.
The front door of the old schoolhouse, bearing the dates of the school's operation.
The building's cornerstone, dated Oct. 1, 1915, laid by Camp No. 1408 of the Woodmen of the World. Trustees are listed as J. Taylor, T.N. Harrison and A.F. Schumacher.
Another photo of the building's cornerstone, altered to better show the surviving text.
Inside the Community Center is a wall painting, showing a map of Baxter as it was in the 1920s.
The stage and lecturn inside the Community Center.
Former students' names written on a blackboard inside the old schoolhouse. The blackboard and names will remain a permanent fixture as long as the building stands.
More former students of the Baxter School District and Gum Creek School for Coloreds.
Interior view of the building's main doorway. Posted on the bulletin board is a brief history of the Baxter Post Office, which closed in the first decade of the 1900s.
One of the old cast-iron stoves from the early part of the 1900s still remains in the Community Center's main room.
The cleaned and re-painted Community Center main room.
A reminder of the Annual Baxter Homecoming, held on the first Sunday of each October.
The Baxter Community Center as it stands today. With a history stretching back a century, the building continues to serve a useful purpose today.
The Baxter baptism tank, located a half-mile west of Baxter on the old Wiley Thompkins place. The tank dates to 1920 and is still used to water cattle today.
Now a vacant field, this is the site of the old Baxter General Store, originally operate by the Scruggs and Neely families. The General Store also housed the Baxter Post Office until it closed around 1911.

The Baxter Community Center Association is a duly recognized 501(c) association by the Internal Revenue Service. All contributions are tax deductible.

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