Carr School

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1. 1908 The county board builds the first room of Carr School for $300 Carr School in northwest Orange County, a gable-roofed weatherboarded schoolhouse, went up in 1908 with one room costing $300. The nomination names it among the few surviving frame schools the county built for Black children; it stands long vacant. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 21
2. 1920 Carr School gets its second classroom The county board added a second room to Carr School in northwest Orange County, making it a two-room school twelve years after the first room was built. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 21
3. June 1950 Principal E. M. Stanfield reports on the one-room school for Black children at Cedar Grove In her report for 1949-50, E. M. Stanfield told the state she was the only teacher for 36 pupils in seven grades in a single room with no library, gymnasium, fire protection or indoor toilet. The two-room Carr School nearby, under principal Anne May Morrow, had 73 pupils and lacked a drinking fountain and state health approval. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 16
4. March to May 1952 The county board sells off its remaining small schoolhouses In March 1952 the board sold the last small school buildings, among them the Fairfield school for Black children, Sartin, Poplar Grove, Morris Grove and Hickory Grove, for prices from $300 to $2,010. Around the same time Carr School went to Jim Wade for $800. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 82 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 8, 1952, p. 1

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