October 2, 2015: The original Hamburg High School.
Two weeks ago, the Hamburg School District sold their original school building for $25,000, the Valley News of Shenandoah reports. (Second story: KMA.) There was a higher bid but it would have been paid in installments and the board didn’t want that hassle.
According to the stories, the buyer wants to grow mushrooms in part of the building and have the auditorium available for public activities. (Hamburg HAD to close the school to all access or get nailed for Americans With Disabilities Act violations.)
The school has been empty since summer 2015, when it was used as Nishnabotna Middle School in a whole-grade-sharing agreement with Farragut. Hamburg’s elementary, which is now K-8 after the state nuked the Farragut school district, is at a different site.
I think this is the second-weirdest use of an old school building, after the shrimp farm in Ridgeway in the other corner of the state.
Story found serendipitously while trying to find out what happened with Thurman’s post office. Good news — Thurman’s getting a new one!