Record #:

23036

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In 1903, the Greenville Graded School Trustees began to educate its own children separate from the county schools. They voted to build a graded school for white children on the old Greenville Male Academy grounds, where Sheppard Memorial Library now sits. R. J. Cobb put up the money to build a brick graded school. The graded school was officially named “The Evans Street School” in 1915. At the same time, a small wooden graded school for blacks was built on Fleming Street. In 1913, “The Model School” was built on Cotanche Street as a training school for teachers. It was torn down in 1931. In 1916, a High School was built at Fifth and Reade Streets. In 1922, the black graded school on Fleming Street burned and it was rebuilt. The West Greenville School was built in 1925 and added to over the years. Also in 1925, additions were put onto the Greenville High School. The older 1916 part of the Greenville High School burned in 1927 and rebuilt. In 1929, the Evans Street School burned and the Third Street School was built afterwards. In 1954, Elmhurst School was built and in 1957, Rose High School was built on Elm Street.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Sept 27-Oct 10 1995, p8-9

Subject(s):

Greenville--History--Education