Historic school to be razed for youth

This old school building on Sixth Street in Rocky Top, which once served black children, will be torn down soon to make way for more outdoor play space for the Boys and Girls Club of Lake City, which operates a facility on this site for middle school students. - G. Chambers Williams III
Built in 1957 as an elementary school for Black children in Lake City, then later converted to use for kindergarten kids, the one-story brick building has deteriorated to the point where “it has become a bit of a safety hazard,” said Bart McFadden, president and chief-executive officer of the Knoxville-based Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley.
The Boys and Girls Club of Lake City had used the old school as its office space for several years, but the building has been vacant for a while, club officials said.
It’s on the same site as the building that previously housed the Head Start operation for pre-school children in Lake City/Rocky Top, on property that previously was owned by the Anderson County Board of Education.