This old burned out building was originally built in 1938 by the WPA program. Many folks in the community, my parents included, went to school here. See at that time instead of having a few larger, centralized schools in Magoffin County, there were many smaller schools tucked away up all these hollers that would only serve that little community's handful of children.
It burned long before my time, but it has been a permanent fixture of the community, one of those things that made it feel comforting and homey just because it has always been here; a reminder of days gone by. And it was a historical and visual landmark. You'd also see kids out here every year taking their senior or prom pictures on its steps.
Well the Parkway Expansion project knocked it down the other day and destroyed it. They've destroyed it to make room for a highway that nobody around here asked for.
This photo was taken by a local man named John Perkins; I found it on his Flickr account.
