Cedar Glades School, Montgomery Co. AR 1930s

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Cedar Glades School. Taken in the mid 1930s.
Teacher Mearl Meredith.
Students names?

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Cedar Glades School. Taken in mid 1930s.
Little girl in front is Margaret Ann Tucker. Standing LR:
Juanita Bates, Frances Thornton, Estelle ____, Wilma Bates, Opal Johnson, and Mary Lena Tucker.
The two in the window are unnamed.

The largest schools in the area were in Buckville, Cedar Glades and Avant. There is a picture of the original school and bef. 1900. It's first location was abt. � mile from the main road to Mt. Ida, north of Cedar Glades on the old O.M. Blocker farm. The second site was about � mile east of Cedar Glades. All points are now under Lake Ouachita.

"Cedar Glades has a population of 250, is 22 miles east of Mt. Ida, and 20 miles northwest of Hot Springs and is surrounded by a good farming  county. There is a good school house here." Goodspeed 1891

Photographs and information courtesy of  Debra Garner. Posted 15 Jan. 2001.
Schools in Montgomery County, AR
Montgomery County ArkansasGenWeb Project