Green Wood School
Simpson County, KY

The Green Wood Schoolhouse was moved in May 2001 from its location just over the line in Simpson County, KY to a location directly behind the Auburn Museum.  This will eventually be part of the village that the Auburn Historical Society is constructing.  This village will be reminiscent of life in Auburn many years ago.

Memories of Green Wood School
by Carl Lee Carpenter

            There are a lot of things in a person’s life that remains as good memories.  Probably the number one would be the days spent at a country school.  I spent eight years from 1925 to 1933 at Green Wood School in Simpson County.  The education I received during those years would probably be the same as some high schools in later years.

            We had good teachers, only two during my eight years.  They were Mrs. J. W. Pugh and Miss Eliza Wilson.  The school probably averaged 30 or so.

            Recess was the best “subject” for some kids, playing marbles, baseball played with a homemade string ball, and “annie over”.

            I guess my favorite subjects were arithmetic and geography.  I have a map of the U. S.  I drew I 1933 framed (in a frame I made from a barn gate).  Geography probably helped me to do that.  Also my work of making furniture had a good background of numbers and drawing.  I owe that to Green Wood School

            At the close of the eight grade I had to go to Franklin courthouse to take the final exam.  I can remember when Miss Eliza Wilson went with me and as we went up the steps, she told me to take my cap off—some memory.

            It will mean so much to many of us that are still around to have the School building preserved.  We will be able to put keepsakes of school in it so youngsters could see the kinds of building where kids got their education in the “Old Days”

Carl Lee Carpenter