Schools of Cabarrus County
Early & Modern
Does anyone have information on early schools? Also, am
looking for pictures from
early yearbooks,class pictures, and pictures of older schools.
Will get modern schools up soon.
Cedar Grove - Historical
Pleasant Grove - Historical
Grammar (Elementary)
Adcock Elementary - picture taken 1926, submitted by Connie Cook-Schagunn. Her father Frank Cook, is in the first row, 3rd boy from the left. First grade, Kannapolis.
Bell's
Mission Elementary (AA)- Picture submitted by Alice Stewart
Bellfonte Elementary
(AA)- Submitted by Alice Stewart
Cline
Columbus Chapel Elementary
(AA)- Submitted by Alice Stewart
Coltrane - Webb (on Spring St)
Corban Street
Central Grammar
Ebenezer Elementary
(AA)- Submitted by Alice Stewart
Jackson Park Elementary
1952 Miss
Massey's 1st grade class - submitted by Connie Cook-Schagunn ---
may be slow to load.
Kannapolis
1915 1st grade class
- submitted by Zelia Cline (her
mother is in this picture)
1922 7th grade class
-(Here is a picture of my mother's (Mae Brindle) 7th grade class. She is 3rd
from left at the back.
She had hair down to her waist, and when she was forced to leave school to help
support the other children in her family, she went to work in Cannon Mills Co.
She had her hair cut and styled in a short bob and not many of her classmates
recognized her. She was a good student and would have like to study nursing.
The only other person I know in the picture is the boy in the 2nd row on right
is Jazzy Moore who became the editor of the Daily Independent.)
submitted by Zelia Cline
Unknown School
- Kannapolis......not sure of year (prob before 1929) - Submitted by Gail
(If anyone has more info, let Gail & I know.)
Long Grammar - Established by Rev Frank
Long
Primary - Concord
1884 - Miss Bettie Craig, Miss Kate Harris
Public School - No Name (AA)
Miss Lizzie Holmes
Weddington
Hills Elementary School
Junior High
Central Primary
High School
Concord
High School
Logan - (AA)(Became Logan High School in 1924, see below)
J W Cannon
- picture 1940's
Central Cabarrus High School - formed in 1966, by joining 3 area high schools - Bethel, Harrisburg & Hartsell.
Consolidated
Bethel School - Township #10
pic #1 #2
#3 Marvin
Clay is was one of students....any other known students ca 1940?
Shankletown (AA)- Concord (in area called Shankletown).
Logan
(Originally Concord Colored School started by Rev. Frank
Thomas Logan 1891 - in 1924 became
Logan High School)
Deaton - Robert Mathias Ritchie ( Rowan Co) taught
here 1907-1911
Harris Chapel - Robert Mathias Ritchie (of Rowan Co)
taught here1903-1906
Eudy
Winecoff
Bethel
Harrisonburg
Mt Pleasant
W R Odell - History
Est 1929
Hartsell
Union School - Concord
Miss Annie B Carr, Miss Lurkin
College
Barber- Scotia College - History
-
founded Jan 1867 by Rev Luke Dorland. (See Scotia Seminary below)
1889 - Rev Frank Thomas Logan - Chaplain.
North Carolina College - (later Mt Pleasant Collegiate)
1860 A Bikle; Principal; 1872 S A Bikly; W Hurber, Asst.
1877-78 - John B Davis, DD, Pres.
1884 - C Heilig, Pres., Prof. Disinger, and H T J Ludwick
Other
Zion
Wesley Institute (AA)- The A. M. E. Zion Church had long desired
an institution for a thorough education of its children, and accordingly a school
under the auspices of the North Carolina Conference was started in 1879 in the
town of Concord, N. C. It was incorporated under the name of Zion Wesley Institute,
and after two sessions, depending upon collections from the churches of that
conference, it was forced to close its doors. Therefore it was in May, 1881,
when it became apparent that the school must close--then being taught by Prof.
A. S. Richardson. The Ecumenical Conference of the Methodist Church was held
this year in England and in this month of May. Bishop J. W. Hood, D. D., who
was president of the Board of Trustees of the Institute, and Rev. J. C. Price,
with other representatives of the Zion Church, were in attendance.
Bishop Hood, recognizing the ability of Dr. Price, who was then a young man
just out of school, prevailed upon him to become an agent for the school and
to remain in England after the close of the conference.
During the conference Dr. Price made himself famous among the delegates and
visitors as an eloquent orator and after its close had no trouble in getting
before the English people, who welcomed him everywhere and responded to his
appeals in a sum amounting to $9,100. This, of course, was great encouragement
to the Trustees and the Church. The congregation of the Zion Church, in Concord,
offered seven acres of land for a site to erect buildings and locate the school
permanently. But the trustees decided that Salisbury would be a more favorable
place and the school was located in that city, the name was
changed to Zion Wesley College and later to Livingstone College.
Mt Pleasant Female Seminary - Mt Pleasant (See Mt Amoena
below)
1872 - Wiley Barrier & Mrs Scott
1877-78 - Sam'l Rothrock, Pres.
1884 - Rev G F Schaeffer, Pres., Misses Schaeffer, teachers
Bethel Academy - Clear Creek
1884 - J F Jones, Prin.
Classical - Concord
1860 Dan'l R Coleman, Principal
Classical - Poplar Tent
1860 Stephen Frontis, Principal
Cannon - Private preK to 12th [History]
Concord Male Academy -
Concord
1872 - W Wilheim _____
1877-78 - L A Bikle, D D and J R Ervin, teachers
1884 - R S Arrowwood, Prin.,
Concord Female Academy - Concord
Miss Mollie Fetzer - at start
1872 - Miss H C Long, Miss L Long
1877-78 - Miss Maggie Besent, Miss Julia Montgomery - teachers
1884 - Miss Maggie Bessent
Music School - Concord
1884 - Miss L Brown
Rocky River Academy - Harrisburg
_____ Monroe, Prin.
Scotia Seminary (female - colored) - Concord
(Later became Barber - Scotia College.)
1872 - Luke Dorland, Miss Emma Scott
1877-78 - Rev. Luke Dorland, Principal
St John's Academy - Mt Pleasant
1884 - Jas P Cook, Prin.; Miss Mattie Lentz, music teacher.
Poplar Tent Academy
Jackson Training School - state school for indigent boys.
[HISTORY]
Mixed School - Springsville
1884 - Miss Sallie J Robinson
Mt
Pleasant Collegiate Institute [HISTORY
- page down almost to bottom]
Parochial School (no name) (financed by the Missouri Lutheran
Synod
Mt Amoena Seminary - est 1859 (all girls); First President
of this school was Susan E. Biglow Bittle (1859). The Lutheran synod decided
to provide education for girls and opened the Mt. Pleasant Female Academy in
1858. The name was eventually changed to the Mount Amoena (Latin for Mt. Pleasant)
Female Seminary. Cost to attend the school, including room and board, generally
ran $135-170 per year. For that price, students could study math, English, spelling,
history, geography, writing, Latin, and natural sciences. The school burned
in 1911. The citizens of Mt. Pleasant along with the North Carolina Lutheran
Synod raised money to rebuild the school, reopening it in 1913. The school finally
closed in 1927.
White Hall Seminary -
1884 - Miss S E Ainsworth, Miss C Campbell
