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The old Winterville Academy was the outgrowth of local citizens trying to educate the children of their community. By 1895, Nannie C. Cox (1865-1939) bought a lot in the new town of Winterville and with the help of her brother, built a boarding house and school on her lot. The two-teacher school opened in 1895 and it became a very popular and influential school. This school went down about 1900 and another denominational school was built in Winterville by A. G. Cox and Dr. Beriah T. Cox in 1900. It opened in January 1901 as the “Winterville Academy” with G. E. Lineberry as principal. It incorporated as the “Winterville High School” in February 1901. The school survived several fires and reopened in 1920 as a public high school. It later became the A. G. Cox Middle School and was finally razed in 1974.