I am trying to find the location and any other information about two 19th century schools in Lincoln County: Hickory Hill School, near Chestnut Ridge, and Linwood School, on Norris Creek. (1) The March 8, 1894, issue of the Fayetteville Observer carried a news items from Chestnut Ridge that Miss Ezella Prosser would open school at Hickory Hill "near this place" (Chestnut Ridge). This position would apparently be Ezella's first time to teach. The school may possibly have been located on land given in March 1885 by M.A. and Louisa Jane Leftwich Prosser (my great-grandparents) to an unnamed school district. The Prosser farm was on Stoneboro Road, near Chestnut Ridge. Later that year the Prossers sold the farm to their daughter and son-in-law, May Etta Prosser Whitaker and John Jay Whitaker, with the school land specifically excluded from the sale. (2) An article in the December 3, 1885, Observer refers to speakers at Linwood School on Norris Creek. If anyone has information about either of these early schools, I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks! Carolyn Whitaker Crowley