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- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Julius I. Foust heads the Caldwell Institute at Caldwell
The Caldwell Institute, a school for boys and girls in northern Orange County, advertised with Julius I. Foust as principal, offering primary through higher studies and music.
Subject: Caldwell School
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The General Assembly incorporates the Caldwell Institute in Orange County
Among the private schools chartered by the 1899 legislature was the Caldwell Institute at Caldwell. A bill to incorporate it had been introduced in 1891.
Subject: Caldwell School
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Caldwell Institute gets a large new school district
A committee from Caldwell Institute asked for one district made from parts of the Wilson, Little River and Poplar Grove districts. The board approved and had the boundary surveyed.
Subject: Caldwell Institute · Caldwell School
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The old Caldwell schoolhouse is sold as a new consolidated school is built
When the county built a new consolidated Caldwell School in 1925, the board sold the old one-teacher schoolhouse and its site to R. E. Clements for $160 on May 4, 1925.
Subject: Caldwell School
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The county board merges Little River Township's schools into a new Caldwell School
Little River patrons voted in March 1925 for a new school at Caldwell, the board let the building contract to B. F. Blanchard for $12,956.20, and C. S. Miller gave seven acres just beyond Caldwell for the site. In June the board consolidated every school in the township except Schley into Caldwell, which opened with 124 pupils.
Subject: Caldwell School
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Orange County Board of Education closes Caldwell School
In 1961 the county board weighed a proposal to close White Cross School at once and Caldwell School later. In March 1963, in the consolidation that came with the new Orange High School, it voted to close the white-only Caldwell School, built in 1925, and from that fall its pupils went to Aycock and Cameron Park. The county could not sell the building until 1973.
Subject: Caldwell School · Orange High School · Aycock School · Cameron Park School · White Cross School
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The county school board sells the closed Caldwell School property
After the school board asked its attorney in November 1971 to move toward a sale, it accepted $5,143.52 from the sale of the Caldwell School property. Pender later wrote that the building was demolished and the land went back to its owner.
Subject: Caldwell School
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