Historic Deshler High School (1924-1950)

Historic Deshler High School (1924-1950)

Deshler High School; Historic; Tuscumbia School System; Tuscumbia, Alabama; Colbert County, Alabama; High School; School; Education

Deshler High School was built in 1924 on the location of the former Deshler Female Institute. The school lasted until 1950 when the city opened the present Deshler High School on the site of the antebellum Winston plantation located across the Commons from the Deshler Stadium.

Thomas Hale, University of North Alabama

“About the School: History of Deshler”, Accessed on November 20, 2015, www.deshlerhigh.org/?PageName='AboutTheSchool'

Richard C. Sheridan, Deshler Female Institute: An Example of Female Education In Alabama 1874-1918 (Birmingham: Birmingham Printing and Publishing Co., 1986), 49.

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

November 30, 2015