Several years ago I ask this list if anyone knew anything about Everett Hall School. In 1888 I found where a young man named Murphy was arrested for burning "Everett Hall" schoolhouse. There wasn't enough evidence to convict him, but this was the first mention of the school. Maybe this will shed light on the location: "John Frazer and I had planned for some time to make a trip to the old well that was on the old Everett Hall School Ground a hundred years ago. It was located about 1/4 mile south of the Pennington Cemetery, near the Country Club. After driving as close as possible, we proceeded on foot through a genuine wilderness where everything had at least a thorn of some kind. When we stumbled upon an old barbed wire fence, the Mayor allowed as how we were getting close. I hoped so because my scratches and the loss of body fluids through blood and sweat had about satiated my desire to see both the old school ground and well. Finally we found it; realizing when we did so that we had passed within feet of it several times. It was a clay tile, bored well about 8 inches in diameter that had been rounded with a barrel and concrete poured around it. The old barrel staves had long since rotted away. We stood staring at it in silence, thinking of all the school children who had quenched their thirst from it those many years ago. We looked for other signs of the old school, but saw none. Where the old school had stood, a pine tree 3 feet thick is now standing. Not until we were out of the woods did we realize we were covered from head to foot with every kind of tick and redbug found in these parts; they had no mercy, either. I wondered if my mother and all the kids who went to that school got covered with the same kind of bugs when they marched across that same ground 80-odd years ago, and on to the cemetery to attend the funeral of Roy Coker, a classmate who had drowned. They had dismissed school for the services...all the pupils followed the one-room schoolteacher, Dan Clements, to the funeral. It was the custom in days of yore." ...Bill Godwin