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Donaldson Elementary School on Tindal Avenue was named for Thomas Quinton Donaldson. When the Greenville city school district was created in 1886, Donaldson served as the first chairman of the school board. The large wing on the back was originally for junior high students. In 1939 Albert Einstein visited the school to speak to the fifth-grade students. Einstein was in Greenville visiting his son H. Albert Einstein, who was a hydraulic engineer working for the USDA Soil Conservation Service.
From “Remembering Greenville: Photographs From the Coxe Collection,” by Jeffrey R. Willis
Where the school once stood is now Tindal Park. The vacant lot next to the former school is home to a building that was most recently the Greenville School District Office Annex building. Tindal Park offers tennis courts, a playground and picnic area and a basketball court.
