Mystery of the Butler Street School

Travelling northwest from Robinsonville one will soon reach the lower end of Butler Street. The road and community known as Butler Street stretches into Monroe County and scenic views along the route offer a pleasant distraction from the homogenized billboards and miles of boring interstate that cuts across the road at Little Rock.

There are many old farms and homesteads that dot the landscape along Butler Street, as well as old service stations and churches where people toiled, raised families, worshiped and lived out their lives across the decades. These quiet memorials to the past all have...