Harmony School

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1. December 3, 1888 The school board runs Harmony School directly when no committee can be found Unable to find anyone to serve as its committee, the board placed Harmony School under its own supervision so a school could be taught there. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 41
2. March 11, 1925 Harmony School patrons protest a merger with Aycock School A delegation from Harmony School went before the board to object to consolidating their school with the new Aycock School at Cedar Grove. The board told them no such step was planned, though Harmony was merged into Aycock six years later. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 73
3. by February 19, 1932 Teacher John Poteat turns a $10 gift into clothes for 33 pupils at the Black Harmony school Finding attendance down at Harmony school, a Black school in northern Orange, because children lacked clothes and books, welfare officer George H. Lawrence sent old books and $10 of county money for more, and gave teacher John Poteat $10 from citizens. Poteat bought cloth and thread, and mothers sewed clothes for 33 children. People: George H. Lawrence The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1932, p. 1
4. by July 9, 1953 The county school board sells the abandoned Harmony School property The Board of Education announced that it had sold the property of the abandoned Harmony School for $375. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 9, 1953, p. 1

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