One of the old one room schools that not much history is known about was the Prospect school. This school was located in the Cave Spring are of the county.
Prospect school set nestled up next to the wooded bluff in the Cave Spring-Nunn Switch area of the county.
It was located off of the Nunn Switch Road and the Chappell Rd.
The children like to play on the rocky bluffs that were located behind the school during play time.
The earliest record found for the school was the year 1891 and Sarah Carmen was given as the name of the teacher.
Schools in the early days were of short duration, having only three months in the fall, usually beginning about October and continuing until the end of December. Sometimes in the spring there was a term of six weeks. Parents needed their children at home during the spring and summer months to help with all the farm work.
There was running water in a little branch on each side of the school yard. Drinking water was brought from the branch to the school each day.
During lunch hour in the fall of the year children would gather huckleberries, persimmons, hickory nuts and walnuts. The small girls liked to find a big flat rock and gather moss to cover it. That would be their sofa. they would break a bushy limb from a large bush for a broom to sweep off a place around the sofa for a room or playhouse.
Many programs were given on the last day of school. Children and parents always looked forward to that time. Parents would bring big boxes and baskets of food to be served at the noon hour, and several short programs were given by the students to show what they had learned during their school term.
Some of the teachers were Rev. James f. Price, Rev. W.C.M. Travis, E. Jeffrey Travis, Jimmie Canada, and Mana Crowell Little.
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