Taylor Springs is an early name for what is currently known as Massanetta Springs. The exact date of construction of the Taylor Springs School is unknown but the weekly newspaper, The Rockingham Register, noted that a Mr. A. B. Miller taught at Taylor Springs during the 1877-78 school year. The school was located on the Massanetta Springs Road (currently Route 687) approximately where the Sunnyside Presbyterian Home is now located. The school is shown on Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County on the east side of the Massanetta Springs Road. The exact date of closing of the school is unknown but presumably the school closed after the 1905-06 school year, the last year that records are available.

Teachers known to have taught at Taylor Springs are:

1877-78 A. B. Miller
1893-94 Ella Snyder
1894-95 Anna M. Shirey
1895-96 Lucy M. Coffman
1896-97 A. G. Whitsel
1897-98 Oren L. Burtner
1898-99 Lunsford H. Lewis
1899-1900 O. H. Landes
1900-01 Mollie B. Hinton
1901-02 (unknown)
1902-03 Mary Rice
1903-04 Mary Rice
1904-05 (unknown)
1905-06 Sally Acker

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