Big Ridge - early Jackson County school

Big Ridge - early Jackson County school

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This photograph shows a class standing in front of Big Ridge School in Glenville, North Carolina. After the school burned in 1922, the Board of Education ordered that the school be rebuilt at an April 1923 meeting. Mabel Edwards was the school principal from 1924 to 1925. Information on the school’s consolidation or closing is unknown. The following are the names of identified students and teachers in this photograph: (first row) J. B. Galloway, Raymond Wilson, Alvin Nicholson, Earnest Pressly, Neil Burgas ; (second row) Eva Brown (teacher), Bessie Hooper, Matthew Wilson, Cassie Wilson, Emma Jamison, Irma Henderson ; (third row) Della Wilson, Ollie Bryson, Rose Henson, Emma Lonniz, Effie Bryson, Lula Wilson, Lizzie Wilson, Elsie Monteith ; (fourth row) Sam Wilson, Earnest Wilson, [Weaver] Wilson, Edd Wilson, Bert Sims, Tom Moss, Ruff Lusk, [Dyre] Lusk, Walter Wilson, Walter Monteith, Lawton Henderson, John Bird (teacher on the end).

Jackson County Board of Education

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2011-06-20

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Glenville (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

4.75" x 7.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia