Coweta High School history

In 1843 Presbyterian minister Robert M. Loughridge opened Koweta, a Creek Nation mission school.

Rainey and Smith attended Emory University and became the first students from Coweta County to graduate from college – both graduating from Emory in 1848.

Loughridge left Koweta to supervise Tullahassee Manual Labor School, which was completed in 1850.

The Koweta school closed in 1861.

In 1867, the Creeks adopted a constitution which divided their nation into six districts.

He was voted out of office in 1871 but certainly made an impact during his short tenure.

The Temple Avenue School, which later became Newnan High School was built in 1888.

On May 24, 1897, the United States Post Office Department established a post office in the town.

In 1901 Coweta was incorporated, and H. H. Lane served as mayor.

In 1903, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad built a line from Tulsa to Muskogee with Coweta as a stop.

Central Elementary was opened in 1939 serving first to twelfth grade.

Federal Writers' Project, Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941).

The new, and still used, Newnan High School opened on Lagrange Street in 1952.

East Coweta opened in the 1954-55 school year and housed grades 1-12 for many years.

The first graduating class was in 1955.

Sarah Croisant Dobbins, "Coweta," in Wagoner County History (Wagoner, Okla.: Wagoner County Extension Homemakers Council, 1980).

Later the school became a 6-12 campus until 1988 when Coweta County began the middle school concept.

Northgate Middle School opened in August 1995, in the back yards of Arnall Middle School and White Oak Elementary School, using empty classrooms from both schools and approximately 23 portable units.