Allen School for White Children
Map #4

This building currently serves Asbury United Methodist Church as its community hall, and its physical appearance was much altered by remodelling in 1964. It was built first as a one-room school in 1887/88 by local carpenter Jack Huffington. A second room and a stage were added in the 1890's. The school served the community until 1937 when schools were consolidated and Allen children were bused into Fruitland. Local tradition holds that an earlier one-room school existed at one corner of the Asbury Church lot, and its best known teacher was Mr. Levin "Squire" Price, who taught there beginning in 1860. The earliest teacher in Allen, as far as we know, was Mrs. Mary Whittington Allen, who taught local children in the dining room of her home. The village was renamed in 1884 for her son, Joseph S.C. Allen , a local storekeeper and postmaster.