On Moss Hill Road (County Road 279) 3.6 miles south of Main Street (State Road 79), on the right when traveling south.
Early settlers, attracted by the fertile Coosada (later Holmes) Old Fields, established a log schoolhouse Methodist mission near here soon after Spain ceded Florida to the United Stated in 1820. The first Methodist ministerial assignment between the . . . — — Map (db m73292) HM
On Holmes Valley Road, 0.2 miles east of Reno Road, on the left when traveling east.
Washington County was a center for Native American activity for thousands of years and became the scene of military action during the Creek War of 1813-1814 & First Seminole War of 1817-1818. A Red Stick chief named Holms (Holmes) left Alabama . . . — — Map (db m148539) HM
On Shady Grove Road just east of Florida Route 79, on the left when traveling south.
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In the 1950s, there was a broad effort in the South to expand African American education and preserve the dual school system. To centralize the education of African American students in Vernon and the surrounding area, the Washington . . . — — Map (db m200357) HM
On Court Avenue at Yellow Jacket Drive, on the right when traveling west on Court Avenue.
In 1931, during the Great Depression, Vernon High School was constructed for white students in grades one through twelve with eight classrooms, offices, and an auditorium. In 1947, four junior-high and nine elementary classrooms were added, which . . . — — Map (db m199929) HM
On Main Street (State Road 79) at Roche Avenue (State Road 277), on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
In the 1820s, settlers arrived in the area around present-day Vernon. One of the earliest was Stephen J. Roche who built a trading post on Holmes Creek and called it “Roche’s Bluff.” The town of Vernon developed near the trading post. On . . . — — Map (db m73293) HM
