Record #:

23359

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

By the 1770s there were school teachers in Pitt County. In 1786 the Pitt Academy was incorporated in Greenville. In 1817, the Pleasant Grove Academy opened, and by the 1830s, the spirit of education had come to Pitt County and the state of North Carolina. Women’s academies and Common Schools were established across the State, and tax money was raised for the upkeep of schools and pay of the teachers. A pioneer of Pitt County education, Mrs. William Henry Smith, also known as Aunt Pollie Nelson Smith, began teaching area children in 1845, which eventually led to the development of a two story school house built in 1882. Despite the less than attractive conditions of these school houses, eventually every small community in Pitt County had their own, until 1938 when the schools were consolidated and these houses were sold off.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Mar 18-Apr 1 2009, p4

Subject(s):

Public schools--Pitt County