The Webb School

Other colleges quoted the Webb School's record. In 1877 Vanderbilt's chancellor, Landon Garland, held up Webb students as the standard of scholarship he wished other applicants met, and Methodist Bishop Holland McTyeire said he knew of no school its superior. Sawney Webb's son, W. R. Webb Jr., joined the faculty in 1897, became co-principal in 1908 and served as headmaster until 1952. The boys' school admitted its first female boarders in 1973, and later building campaigns added a library and a student center.

What the plaque says

The Webb School Founded 1870, at Culleoka, by William R. ("Sawney") Webb, whose brother John M. ("Old Jack") Webb joined him in 1874. It moved here in 1886. Its curriculum, embracing chiefly Latin, Greek and Mathematics, was designed to give a sound preparatory education. Many of its early graduates have conducted schools of the same type, which were once prominent in the South's educational system.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration — 8.7 mi
  The Shelbyville show grounds where the Tennessee Walking Horse has been crowned world grand champion each late summer since 1939, and where the practice of soring is part of the story.
• Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park — 15 mi
  A 2,000-year-old enclosure of piled stone and earth on the bluffs above the forks of the Duck River, built by Native people between about 80 and 550 A.D., with a museum and waterfall trails.
• Henry Horton State Park — 20 mi
  A Duck River park on Governor Henry Horton's former farm in Marshall County, with a mill ruin from 1845, kayak floats and the grave of a governor the House declined to impeach.
• Stones River National Battlefield — 20 mi
  The Murfreesboro battlefield of December 1862, with a national cemetery built by Black soldiers, a Trail of Tears route and the story of the freedmen's settlement called Cemetery.

More markers nearby

• Wartrace — 4.4 mi
• Henry Watterson — 6.6 mi
• Army of the Cumberland, June 24-26, 1863 (Hoover's Gap) — 7.1 mi
• Prentice Cooper — 9.4 mi