Old Hardin Valley School Marjorie Walters relates that David Gallaher (1813-1894) donated the money to build the first Hardin Valley School in 1890. The photo to the right was snapped in 1929 or 1930. It was taken when Margaret Gallaher was in 2nd grade at the school (which was on Campbell Station Road at that time-where Don Hubbard currently lives). All the grades attended the school and were present in this photo. Margaret Gallaher is the 7th child from the right in the front row. The teacher at far left is Johnnie Mae Kollock, daughter of Frank and Minnie Gallaher Kollock. The little towhead in the front is Marjorie Walker, who has chronicled a lot of Hardin Valley's history, and married Amos Walters. Margaret remembers a pail at the outside corner of the school porch. There was a dipper in the pail, and that was the only source for the students to get a drink of water during the school day. Margaret recalls that she went to this school until the middle of her 4th grade year, when the WPA built a new school in the early 1930's (built on the hillside on the southwest corner of Marietta Church Road and Hardin Valley Road). The Old Red Store--a Rare Piece of History  This building dated back to the earliest days of Campbell Station. It was a historic building even before it was brought to the corner of Campbell Station and Hardin Valley Roads. The old structure was finally removed about 2007, but for almost 100 years it was a center of social interactions in Hardin Valley. The original building was the old block house used as an overflow for guests in Concord, and it could have dated back to the early 1800's. Then in the early 1900's, according to Images of America, Concord-Farragut, Uncle Frank Kollock (husband of Minnie Belle Gallaher) dismantled the old building and hauled it over the mountain from Concord to put it back together on Kollock's corner in Hardin Valley. There it served as a store and residence to several local people. Macy Mack Gallaher and his first wife Annie Alice Stubbs lived in the second story in the years before World War I. Pierce Walker and George Hardin first ran a store in this location. In the 1920's Frank Kollock was the "squire" of the area; he ran the store and also handled law cases in the yard outside the store. The Kollocks had a chicken house near the store and fresh chickens and eggs were part of the store's offerings. Margaret Gallaher also remembers that the Knox County mobile library trucked parked weekly in front of the red store in the late 1920's and 30's. All the children gathered on that day around the bookmobile. Myrtle and Herman Herron had their store in the old red building by that time. It served as Herron's Store then until their Meat Packing business was started. Margaret remembers eating homemade ice cream that Myrtle Herron made for the children many times upstairs over the old red store. The Ferguson family lived there in later years and were caretakers for the property. Old Dr. Christian's House  This house may soon disappear--it's on East Gallaher Ferry Road near the intersection of Hickory Creek and Hardin Valley Roads. It was the home of Dr. Christian, who was John and Parallee's doctor. Dr. Christian's wife Mattie was sister to Aunt Ann Jones (who was a Gallaher). Macy and Betsy rented this house for awhile in the 1920's after Dr. Christian died, as they were shifting their family from Knox County to Anderson Country. First daughter Margaret Gallaher was born in this house in 1922. Betsy was a 18-year-old mother who was fascinated with an outbuilding which had originally been Dr. Christian's office--in it she found a medical skeleton! Later the doctor's son Bill Christian and wife Katie lived in this house, and Sara Gallaher played with Margaret Ann Christian there. Even before TVA furnished power to the Valley, the Christians had power via a personal Delco power plant (primitive generator). The Gallahers were fascinated with this, as they had no electricity,using only oil or Alladin lamps. |
 Some identification of the HARDIN VALLEY SCHOOL photo above from Margaret Gallaher: Front, L to R: Nellie Ruth Hardin, unidentified, Jess Pitts, unidentified 4 students, then Margaret Gallaher, Agnes Grady, Anita Bryant, Margie Walters in very front, a Lee boy, then two unidentified children. Second row, L to R: Teacher Johnnie Mae Kollock, Dorothy Jones, unidentified, a Lee boy, another unidentified boy, right behind is a Pitts child, then Nora Lee, unidentified girl, Clyde Grady, unidentified boy, then Margaret Boyd Hardin, Everett Bryant, then unidentified girl; Third row, L to R: unidentified boy, and in front of him Grady ? who got a "whipping" every day (as Margaret remembers it), then Clarence Walker, one very tall unidentified boy, maybe a Pitts, with Kimball Pitts standing in front of him, then 2 more unidentified boys, then another teacher-Miss Bright(with bright red hair!), then 4 unidentified girls, against the wall W.K. Jones. Herron's First Store  It can still be seen, peeking through the vines, right on East Gallaher Ferry Road. This was Herman Herron's first store that Margaret Gallaher remembers. The Herron house was up the hill behind this store, and Margaret remembers coming to the store and seeing little Alvin in a play pen in the store. Alvin was their only child. Across the road and down the hill, there was a spring house where the Herrons stored butter and dairy products. Myrtle Herron once got bitten by a snake there by the spring house. Years later, of course, the Herrons had their meat-packing and more modernized store on Hardin Valley Road and they lived up above the modern store. |
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