A Pictorial History of Haysi High School

 

Note: The first high school classes in Haysi were taught upstairs in the Haysi Department Store building.

 

The first high school building was completed in January 1929.

It was a large structure, complete with a gymnasium, and was considered quite modern for the time.

But on December 10, 1941, just three days after Pearl Harbor,

the Haysi High School building was completely destroyed by fire.

 

 

 

A temporary "barracks-style" structure was built across the river

to accommodate the 140 pupils enrolled in the high school at that time.

 

 

 

A view of the new Haysi High School building under construction in 1953.

The rush was on to finish the building before the 1954 school term began.

Haysi's high school enrollment had increased from 140 students in 1941 when the

first school burned, to 480 students in 1953.

 

 

 

In the fall of 1954 the new Haysi High School was ready for its first school term.

The new building had over 20 classrooms, with a combination auditorium-gymnasium,

a cafeteria and library .

 

 

 

The new high school sits on the same general area where the old one burned, on a hill just across the

river from the building that served as a temporary high school from 1941 until 1954.

The old tarpaper building continued to be used, serving as an elementary school from 1954 until 1970.

 

 

 

The new building still serves as the high school today.

 

 

 

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This page updated September 18, 2004