Dry Fork Community was about a
mile northeast of Olin Baptist Church
between Turkey Branch and Dry
Fork Creek. It is about
thirteen miles north of Hamilton.
Dry Fork was one of the earliest schools in
Hamilton County being organized in 1880 by the people of the community
who built a log building to house the school and donated money to employ a
teacher. Dry Fork was
northeast of Olin on the Dry Fork of Honey Creek.
near what is now County Road 239 and between CR206 and CR207.. It is about
thirteen miles north of Hamilton.
Citizens of the Dry Fork School Community have
included: Garland and Minnie Ables, Murrell and Daphna Ables, T. J. and
Minnie Box, Elmer and Myrtle Bullard, D. C. and Alice
Bullard, James P. Columbus, Lewis and Sarah Columbus, Jesse J. and
Mattie Douglas, Giles and Emma Driver, Henry Giles and Mary Driver,
B. W. Greer, M. R. Hedgpeth, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hicks, G. W. and
Ila Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johns, John and Susan Latham, Ed and
Maybell Lively, O. D. and Emma Montgomery, W. E. and Virgie
Needham, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Seago, John and Mattie A.
Smith, W. C. and Vienna Stark, Reuben Anthony and Sophia
Jean Bullard Trantham, Robert Erwin and Rosa Ann Gallagher Gordon,
Sr., and M. A. Vann. Jim Columbus, with his parents,
came to the Dry Fork Community in 1880.
