it served as a Sunday school building for one year in 1890. Antioch school, founded between 1885 and 1890, stood about five miles southwest of the current Rosewood school. Oakland school, established circa 1890, was located approximately four miles west of the present school. Its name came from the "oak grove" in which it stood. Out of these five smaller schools, Pine Forest and Applejack consolidated in 1904 to form the first "Rosewood" school by 1905. The committeemen decided on the name Rosewood because of its relative location to Rose station. The main building, which is still in use to this day, opened in the spring of 1923. It was constructed in 1922–1923 at a cost of $50,000 (equivalent to $600,000 by today's standards). That year there were three full-time teachers, seven elementary teachers, a part-time physical education director, and one athletic coach. A total of 221 pupils were enrolled in the "new" school that year. The school was equipped with steam heat (which is still used to this day), electric lights, and running water. This 11-grade school also had an agricultural department. In addition, the 1922–23 Rosewood school also had baseball, basketball, tennis, and track teams. Shortly after the construction of this building, both Antioch and Oakland consolidated with Rosewood, thereby increasing its enrollment to an estimated 360 pupils, with 12 teachers in all. In 1927, the right side of the school building was added on to with four new rooms and a new stairway. This addition was ready for use in the 1928–29 school year. In 1950, Wayne County undertook a project to construct gyms at schools throughout the county. Gyms were being built at the schools of Nahunta, Pikeville, Eureka, and Rosewood. The construction of the Rosewood gym was completed in 1951. The principal during construction, Mr. Larry Deans, was unwilling to settle for a gym equivalent in size to the ones under construction at Rosewood's cross-county counterparts. Therefore, he enacted fund raisers to raise enough money to build the larger size gym, which is still present to this day. Fund raising efforts included bringing home-grown corn to school to sell and making sandwiches to sell. In addition, donations came in from throughout the community to aid in the fund raising for the gym. The Wayne Collection, a book featuring literary and artistic works from students in Wayne County Schools, was first published in 1986. Since that