History
S. R. Butler started Butler Training School in 1908 and operated it until 1914. From 1914 until 1929 this building served as the Wills-Taylor School for boys and girls. The city then bought it and made it the Huntsville Junior High School. Now it is a parking lot for the Annie Merts Center for school administration. The first Butler High School was built in 1954 and was originally intended to also serve as a fallout shelter for the surrounding area in the case of a nuclear attack. Its proximity to Redstone Arsenal Army Base made the area a likely target during the Cold War.The current S.R. Butler High School was built in the late 1960s with the first graduating class in 1968. The old Butler was renamed Stone Middle School and is located at the intersection of Clinton Avenue and Governors Drive and was remodled after a suspicious fire destroyed much of the old school. The current Butler H.S. is located on Holmes Ave.
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