The Joe's Creek School was located on the northeast corner of the Greenmount Road (currently Route 910) and the road coming from Lindale Church (currently Route 780). The school was located northwest of Edom on land donated by or purchased from Isaac B. Kline and the 22 x 28 one-room schoolhouse was constructed in 1878. The name for the school came from nearby Joe's Creek, a tributary of Linville Creek. Some of the early teachers known to have taught at Joe's Creek School were:

Sam Rice
Emmer Shank
Millie Shaver
Ella Hinton
Winfield Jones
Dick Ashby
Cora Acker (1902-04)
Mary Thomas (1904-05)
Daphna Rhodes (1905-06)

By the early 1900s, the population of the school had shifted north and the school was no longer central to its attendance area, so in 1906 the Joe's Creek School was discontinued and rebuilt further north on the Greenmount Road at its intersection with the Wenger's Mill Road. (currently Route 753) This road from the Joe's Creek School to the Wenger's Mill Road no longer exists. After the school was rebuilt at the new location it was renamed the Cross Roads School.