Showing posts with label Oxford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oxford. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2009

A Moment for Reflection

A phone call from a friend on Friday prompted us to get out Saturday to visit the site of this old church-building being dismantled on the Wideman Road just outside of Oxford. We asked a couple of folks we met while in the area what building this was but neither was quite sure. The only thing we were told was that it may have been a church.
If you know this old building, let us know what it is...whether a church, school, or both!
Each time we see one of these majestic old structures falling down from fatigue or as in this case...being dismantled...it leaves us somewhat melancholy.

UPDATE!!

A helpful reader has informed us that this was indeed a church-building! It was the home of Pleasant Ridge Church.



Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Spring Hill School and Cemetery

On a whim, we lit out on an unfamiliar backroad this past Saturday and found the old Schoolhouse at Spring Hill. The stone in the building appears to have come from the same quarry (or pasture) as those used in the construction of the old Agri-Building at Violet Hill.
Across the road from the old school is the Spring Hill Cemetery where the family plots of Yanceys, Couches, Cliffts, Browns, and Wisemans can be found. There are two ex-confederates buried here...one a member of the 5th Arkansas Cavalry. Unlike names found at other cemeteries recently, we have been unable to dig up any info on any of the names found at Spring Hill.