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Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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A one-room log school is built beside St. Mary's Chapel
In the 1840s a one-room log schoolhouse went up next to St. Mary's Chapel. The brick St. Mary's School of 1931 was later built on the same site.
Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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St. Mary's School burns and the county builds a new one
Fire destroyed St. Mary's School on November 3, 1930. With $2,500 from the county commissioners on top of $1,800 already set aside, the board let J. H. Liner of Cedar Grove build a new school for 84 children for $4,638.30 and received it on January 5, 1931.
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St. Mary's School gets a WPA brick auditorium
St. Mary's School, a Colonial Revival brick school built in 1931 near Murphey School to replace a log schoolhouse, received a Neoclassical brick auditorium in 1936 through the same WPA program, plainer than the one at Murphey.
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St. Mary's School closes as its pupils are merged into the Hillsborough schools
Consolidation with the Hillsborough schools closed St. Mary's School in 1943.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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The old St. Mary's School reopens as a private college preparatory school
The St. Mary's School building, closed since 1943, reopened in 1970 as a private college preparatory school.
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