Archives Closed Schools Q-S: South Park School

Last Address: near South Park Road, Fairdale

Year Opened: 1894

Year Closed: 1928

The original South Park School was a one-room frame building located near the intersection of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L & N) and South Park Road in Fairdale.  The school succeeded another school operated for several years in the basement of a building in the vicinity.  A new school building was built near the same site in 1916 on land purchased from the Kentucky Grocery Company and Mamie Ferring.  The Fairdale School district was split five ways in 1913 resulting in new school districts:  Pine Grove, South Park, Berry, Mitchell Hill, and Fairdale.  In 1928 these districts were merged back into one and a Fairdale Grade School succeeded the previous schools.  The old school and property were auctioned in November 1928.