- No longer standing; also referred to as “Appleby’s School” and “School No. 42.”
Students within the Appleby School, District 42, met at a school house on the southwest corner of the present-day intersection of College Avenue and Appleby Road. It operated from about 1869 to 1945, when numerous districts were consolidated.
Although primarily used for a schoolhouse, the building also hosted Sunday School classes and pastors from various congregations. For instance, Nathan M. Ragland, minister of the First Christian Church in Fayetteville, reported giving 15 sermons at Appleby’s School during 1887.
In 1917, Mrs. Appleby represented the 20th Century Club for conferring with the Tuesday Musical Club to take advantage of the Tovey Record Program for Appleby School. The program was created by Henry Tovey, professor of music and head of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Arkansas. He developed a lending library of musical records that could be played on a Victrola and included descriptions of the music, performers and history of the piece, which could be read by a member of the receiving group.
The school provided grade-school classes through the 1930s. After consolidation of the smaller school districts into larger over-arching districts during the 1930s and 1940s, the Fayetteville School District put Appleby School and its grounds up for sale in 1945.