Mount Hope School History

Mount Hope School History. . By 1872 there were only three families, that of C.C. Brown, the Warner's and the McGinnis’ living in the area now known as Mount Hope. They built a one room wooden schoolhouse replacing the first school held in the Blake Ian kitchen and in a tenant house on the Brown Farm showing the importance of education to these early settlers. The School was built at the head of this valley, and McGinnis felt it should be named "Mount Hope School". , Another room was added to the school in 1887, Following the opening of several coal mines in the area at the turn of the century, the school increased to six rooms. , Ten rooms and an auditorium were later added. After the school was lost in the fire of 1910, two separate schools were built, a twelve room grade school, auditorium, library and office and a brick high school with large class rooms, office and basement. , In 1917 a brick six room building known as Dubois School was constructed for use by the area’s African-American students, and in 1925 a beautiful brick building with twenty one rooms was built in the center of town as Mount Hope High School. In 1956 with integration Mount Hope and Dubois High Schools were joined into one school in the new Dubois High School Building. The name was changed to Mount Hope High School, and the old school became Mount Hope Junior High.