Swampy’s Historic Photos: Baker County Girl’s Basketball, 1947.
This is the Taylor High School girl’s basketball team in 1947. The book this is in claims this to be Taylor High School in Baker County, but I don’t believe there ever was a Taylor High School in Baker County. There always has been Baker High School and I suspect that is where this photograph is from.
This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ Annual Edition, Vol.1′
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There was a school in Taylor. It was on County Road 122. Next door to Williams arena, it closed in the 70s after it caught fire.
Taylor High School closed in 1972, under desegregation laws. At that time, it was mainly an elementary school, with middle school and high school kids attending classes in Macclenny. This likely is from 1947, at a time when either my uncle, or great-aunt taught at this school.