Willets School, Willets, N.C.

Dublin Core

Title

Willets School, Willets, N.C.

Subject

Education, Elementary

Description

The Willets school house at the Willets community in Jackson County, N.C., exemplified the many small schools that operated throughout the county. For a quarter of a century, S. Jerome Phillips (1880- 1965) taught at the Willets Graded School and became its principal. A report for the 1919 - 1920 school year listed Phillips as the principal, along with three teachers, G.C. Cooper, Bessie Bishop, and Cassia Wallace.

Creator

Unknown

Source

Regional Photographs Collection

Publisher

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Date

1910/1920

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

jpg;
photographs

Language

eng

Type

StillImage

Identifier

62273
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/62273

Date Created

2006-09-20

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Jackson County (N.C.)
Appalachian Region, Southern

Extent

7"" x 9""(dimension)

Is Part Of

Travel Western North Carolina

Citation

Unknown, “Willets School, Willets, N.C.,” OAI, accessed June 8, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/62273.