HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP SCHOOL / HIGH SCHOOL
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(UNC Postcard Collection)
From the National Register nomination:
Constructed as the Hillsborough Township School, the Classical Revival-style brick building served as the public library for a period, but is currently used as the Richard E. Whitted Human Services Center. The cornerstone dates the original school building to 1922. This portion of the building is two stories on a raised basement and has a parapet roof. The school has a wide dentil and modillion cornice and replacement windows throughout with concrete sills. The middle seven bays of the seventeen-bay-wide façade project slightly with the stepped parapet. Centered on the façade, paired replacement doors have original sidelights and three-part transom. The entrance has a classical surround with pilasters supporting a wide entablature with dentil and modillion cornice. Modern paired brick staircases access the entrance and shelter a below-grade entrance to the basement.
A flat-roofed brick wing with ribbons of metal-frame windows projects from the right (east) elevation and connects to a two-story-with-raised-basement wing on the right. This c. 1933 wing matches the original school in detail with a brick veneer, projecting brick watertable, wide modillion cornice, and replacement windows with concrete sills. It is three bays wide and nine bays deep and the center bay on the façade features a basement-level entrance. There is a small, brick addition at the left (west) end of the façade. A two-story auditorium wing at the rear (north) features a brick veneer, parapet roof, and raised basement. It has replacement windows throughout with double-height windows on the main level surmounted by brick arches with concrete details. There are low brick walls along the front sidewalk and along other walkways on the property. The Classical Revival-style building is typical of the large and architecturally distinguished schools built during the consolidation era of the 1920s. It served grades 1-12 until Orange High School opened in 1962, then operated as an elementary school until 1980.
1943 Sanborn map excerpt
The school also had a machine / agricultural shop across W. Tryon Street.
1940s (Silhouette - Hillsborough High Yearbook.)
1958 (Silhouette - Hillsborough High Yearbook)
1922 Main Building, 08.14.2016 (G. Kueber)
1936 addition, 08.14.2016 (G. Kueber)
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Barracks at Bingham School, Mebane, N.C.
Residence of Col. Gray, Bingham School, Mebane, N. C.
Field Day - Contest for Athletic Medal and Prizes - Commencement. The Bingham School, Mebane, NC
Dormitories, circa 1905
Circa 1905
Dining hall, circa 1905
Circa 1905
Circa 1905
Circa 1905
Circa 1905
Advertisement for "Bingham Camp," circa 1905
The only feature that remains from the school is the brick gateway that students would walk through upon boarding or disembarking from the train (HWY 70 was not constructed until the 1920s). See images below.
View south (S. Rankin, 2018)
View north; the school would have been in the distance (S. Rankin, 2018)
View west (S. Rankin, 2018)
View south-east (S. Rankin, 2018)
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WEST END GRADED SCHOOL (SECOND)
The primary graded school for West Hillsborough from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Composite image from screen captures of panning shot from H. Lee Waters film, 17 Oct 1939. (State Archives of North Carolina.)
Sanborn Map, 1943
The West End Graded School was built in 1938, as a replacement for the West Hillsborough School that had stood on Bellvue Avenue. It was built on the site of Cadwallader Jones's "Old Homeplace" noted on the subdivision map for West Hill - an older house that predated the neighborhood, and contributed the land for the formation of the neighborhood. The site is the peak of the 'West Hill' with an elevation of 605 feet.
Aerial view, 1955
The school consisted of a front hipped-roof block, apparently with dormer windows. Gabled wings extended north from the east and west sides of the buildings.
The school was decomissioned in the late 1960s, perhaps as part of changes to schools with integration. In 1970, the school lot and building were purchased by Everett Kennedy for 5,000 and converted into 17 apartments, which he called the "Kenwood Apartments."
On February 20, 1988. The apartments/former school burned - two young boys (brothers aged 3 and 4) and a man were killed in the fire. The fire "burned through the building in 20 minutes" per the fire chief. Only the very tips of the U-shaped structure were salvageable, as they had been built later and were separated from the rest of the structure by fire walls.
School after the fire, Durham Morning Herald 02.21.1988
The remnants of the school were demolished, leaving only the three apartments in the 'tips' on a large parcel of land. Along with the remaining stone perimeter wall and stairs, the impression is of a somewhat bizarre set of structural elements if one is unaware of the origin story.
02.13.16 (G. Kueber)
As of August 2016, the land was owned by Jim Mathewson. A notice was sent to people within 500 feet of the property for a neighborhood meeting in advance of a proposed rezoning for "single and multifamily project" in early August, termed "Bellevue Place." Although I support redevelopment of this land, this prominent location in the neighborhood deserves a high-quality project - and I don't know if Jim Mathewson will deliver that.
The rezoning of this property failed, and as of 2020, Mathewson is still trying to sell the land to a developer to redevelop the property.
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350 CALDWELL ST. / ORANGE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL (SECOND) / NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY
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ORANGE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL (FIRST)
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The Orange County Training School began in 1913 as Hackney's Educational and Industrial School – which soon became known merely as the Hackney School and colloquially as "Hack's High School" – as a high school serving the local African American community. The school was located west of Merritt Mill Road (then also known as New Mill Road), between West Franklin Street and Cameron Avenue in Chapel Hill.
Orange County Training School (building on left), view north west, circa 1916 (Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs, University of Virginia Library)
Excerpt from the December 1915 Sanborn map of Chapel Hill
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HICKORY GROVE SCHOOL
Orange County site OR493
Information courtesy of the Orange County DEAPR
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QUAKER FREEDMEN'S SCHOOL
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The school building in 1916, view south


Photo of the Quaker School's students and teachers, circa 1905
Photo of the Quaker School's students and teachers, circa 1910

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1919
The Sunnyside School was built or repurposed for African-American students.
In the mid-1930’s, a replacement for the Sunnyside School was desired by parents and the local school committee. In May 1937, at the monthly Orange County Board of Education meeting, "Several colored people from the Hickory Grove school section appeared before the board and asked for a new building at a new location for that district." The replacement was the Hickory Grove School, built in late 1937 or 1938.
Excerpt of 1922 school map of Orange County (shows the two Sunnyside schools; one for black and one for the white students)
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CARRBORO GRADED SCHOOL / TOWN HALL
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09.24.2019 (G. Kueber)
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WEST HILLSBOROUGH GRADED SCHOOL (FIRST)
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"West Hillsborough School - Early 1900s" from History of the Town of Hillsborough 1754-1966, p. 152.
In late 1918, when the "Spanish flu" epidemic spread to the Eno and Bellevue mill districts, the mill officials opened a "diet kitchen" at the school, and it ran for about seven weeks. Elizabeth Cornelius, a Home Demonstration Agent, was in charge of the kitchen, with Emma Robertson and Mildred Durham working as her assistants. The chairman of West Hill, Mr. C. H. Robertson, supervised the project. Rebecca Wall was a volunteer. As many as 150 people were fed daily, with an average of 90 people fed per day. Not only those sick with influenza were fed, but the families with no one to cook or provide for them were also fed. During this time, Mrs. Emerson Graham and Allie Graham were nurses to the mill workers, and Miss Duncan, the "deaconess at the Mills," assisted.
West End School aerial view, view north, 1920s (school indicated by red arrow)
A new brick West Hillsborough School was built on Benton/Margaret in 1938. On the 1943 Sanborn map, this buiding is labelled "Community Club House." - evidently it functioned as some sort of community center (mainly for the mill workers) after the relocation of the school.
West End School auditorium interior, ca. 1950
West End School auditorium interior, ca. 1950
As of 2016, it's a vacant lot to the rear of the First Community Baptist Church on Eno Street.
07.31.2016 (G. Kueber)
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FREDERICK NASH HOUSE / NASH AND KOLLOCK SCHOOL
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Late 1800s (History of the Town of Hillsborough)
In ~1801, Duncan Cameron purchased two lots on the south side of Margaret Lane from two of his great uncles, Abner and Francis Nash. There he built a story-and-a-half house for himself and an adjacent law office as well as a kitchen, corn crib, dairy, well-house, smokehouse, wagon house, barn, carriage house, and stables.
In 1807 Cameron sold the five acre estate to his cousin Frederick Nash, who had moved from New Bern to Hillsborough that same year. Nash built a "large addition" to the house in 1817.
Looking east, likely early 20th c. (Wyatt Dixon Collection, Duke RBMC)
Frederick Nash died in 1858. The next year, his daughters Maria and Sarah opened the Nash and Kollock Select Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies. Maria had attended Miss Mary (Polly) W. Burke's School on East Queen Street in Hillsborough. Sally had taught briefly in the Burwell School and in 1858. She had also reputedly studied drawing for a short time in New York. Although Sally and Maria Nash "spent their entire lives from birth to death in the old gray unpainted house on Margaret Lane" in Hillsborough, as Ann Strudwick Nash remarked, they had spent their lives immersed in the intellectual and political culture of their well-known family.
The death of their father in 1858, coupled with the closing of the Burwell School in 1857 likely served as the impetii that spurred the sisters to open the Nash and Kollock school. They brought their young cousin Sara(h) Kollock (1826-1907) into the venture as well - ncpedia describes her as "a tiny lady of spectacular appearance and hair-trigger temper."
The school was successful, due in no small part to the connections of the Kollock-Nash family, attracting "Presbyterian and Episcopal 'young ladies' from old plantation homes up and down the eastern seaboard, even from Kentucky and New Orleans." The school much resembled the Burwell school in curriculum, religious orientation, and living arrangements.
Besides teaching Bible and arithmetic, Sally was the de facto head of school. She "met the public, conducted general school exercises, and supervised the servants and the operation of the dining room. Miss Maria taught English grammar and composition, her particular forte; Miss Sarah taught French and saw to all clerical work, advertising, and so forth connected with the school; and an assistant, a Miss Goodridge, taught history and geography. Music, painting, and drawing were taught by a succession of teachers who used old Cameron-Nash law office as a studio. Five pianos were in use, and the annual soirée musicale at the Masonic Hall received highly favorable newspaper reviews.
Late 1800s (Ladies in the Making [...] at the Select Boarding and Day School of the Misses Nash and Kollock, 1859-1890)
A few boys from the Nash and Strudwick families were admitted to the school during its primary tenure, but after the closure of the main school in 1890, Sarah Kollock operated a small day school of her own for boys and girls in the Cameron-Nash law office.
Likely 1920-1930. (Ladies in the Making [...] at the Select Boarding and Day School of the Misses Nash and Kollock, 1859-1890)
The use of the main Cameron-Nash house from 1890 until the 1940s is still unclear. However, it was, very unfortunately for a house of its historical pedigree, torn down in 1947.
View south west; February, 1947
View south west; February, 1947
View south east; February, 1947
And replaced with a Southern States warehouse -
1996 (Susan Bellinger)
Town of Hillsborough inventory, 1990s.
The Southern States warehouse was torn down in 2008 and replaced with a large new Orange County government building
07.31.2016 (G. Kueber)
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HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP SCHOOL - SHOP
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Silhouette, 1938, Hillsborough High Yearbook.
The shop building for Hillsborough high school was used for elementary classrooms & vocational agricultural & shop building for the school; students below are part of Future Farmers of America.
Future Farmers of America, Silhouette, 1938, Hillsborough High Yearbook.
In 1946, a brick addition was built on the west side of the frame building, purportedly constructed by teachers, students, and local craftsmen; the addition had living quarters upstairs.
1990 (Susan Bellinger)
The building was torn down in the early 2000s.
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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
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Central High School, located in Hillsborough, was initially named the "Hillsborough High School for Negroes"; the 12-room main structure was built in July 1936, on property purchased from Louis Wilson and George Mayo. Mr. C. E. Hester was the first principal, and the school initially served first through eleventh grades (and a "secret" kindergarten class was also taught in its library for awhile). The school's library also served the local black community as a public library.
Hillsborough High School for Negroes' main building, 1936
Graded School (Colored), 1943 (Sanborn)
In 1942, teacher Albert L. Stanback became principal, and had the school renamed Central High School in 1943. In the early 1950s, the elementary school grade classes were moved from Central's campus to a new segregated county school (Cedar Grove Elementary) north of Hillsborough.
1955 aerial (UNC)
1957 (Blue Flame / Central High School Yearbook, 1957)
Buses, 1957
In 1958, Central High's main building burned down. In late 1958, the new gymnasium ("gymtorium") was built, and several famous musicians and perfomers performed at the opening: Ike and Tina Turner, Otis Redding, and Solomon Burke.




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MURPHY / MURPHEY SCHOOL
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Murphey School, 17 Oct 1939. Composite image from panning shot in H. Lee Waters film (State Archives of North Carolina)
From the Indy Week, 18 Aug 2010:
When the Murphey School (the "e" was dropped at some point in the '60s, hence Murphy School Road) was built in 1923, it exemplified the early 20th-century consolidation movement in North Carolina's public education system. Larger schools meant more students, which meant better opportunities for grade-based instruction. A bungalow behind the school, home to the Mental Health Association of Orange County for the last year, housed the staff.
An adjoining auditorium was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project, and it functioned as a community center of sorts in the '40s and '50s. Legend has it that Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb and Hank Snow played shows at the auditorium. The Murphey School closed in 1959, with the building initially leased to the Mt. Hermon Baptist Church before being sold and eventually turned into a nightclub.
07.17.11 (G. Kueber)
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HILLSBOROUGH GRADED SCHOOL
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Circa 1915 (UNC Postcard Collection)
1919
The original public graded school for white students in Hillsborough. It was enlarged and renovated circa 1912. It was torn down circa 1922 to make way for the larger Hillsboro Township School.
1911
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BINGHAM SCHOOL (OAKS)
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NCSU / Preservation North Carolina Historic Architecture Slide Collection, 1965-2005
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CAMERON PARK ELEMENTARY
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07.23.2016 (G. Kueber)
Constructed on the grounds of Paul Cameron’s Burnside estate, this one-story, flat-roofed elementary school was built in 1956. The school consists of two parallel wings, each with exposed concrete framing and brick veneer between the concrete supports. The classroom sections of the building have brick on the lower one-fourth of the wall with stucco and grouped windows above. The cafeteria, at the north end of the right (west) wing has high ribbon windows, while the gymnasium, at the north end of the left (east) wing has full- height brick veneer. An entrance on the right elevation is sheltered by a projecting gabled canopy supported by metal posts and a flat-roofed canopy shelters the walkway on the left elevation. A narrow hyphen connects the two wings, creating an H-shaped plan and a flat-roofed addition at the rear (south) elevation (completed in 1989) has brick veneer on the lower part of the wall, metal-frame windows, and concrete-block on the upper part of the wall [HDC]. Utility areas north of the building are screened by brick walls. Lines of trees separate the school from St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on the west and Montrose on the east. There are open athletic fields southwest of the school and the wooded area to the far south is part of the arboretum planted by Paul Cameron.
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CHAPEL HILL GRADED SCHOOL (FIRST LOCATION)
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The original Chapel Hill Graded School was the first (white) public school in Chapel Hill. It was located on the Road to Pittsboro (about where the UNC School of Social Work building is presently), in the former Canada School building. In May 1915, a bond election was scheduled to vote on buying a site for a new graded school, which was built on Franklin Street.
View southwest, circa 1912 (UNC-SHC)
Former school building (indicated by red arrow), 1915 Sanborn map excerpt
From 1925
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HILLSBOROUGH MILITARY ACADEMY - COMMANDANT'S HOUSE
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07.02.16 (G. Kueber)
06.04.2019 (G. Kueber)
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WOODSIDE FARM (AND SCHOOL)
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ADAMS HOUSE / BURWELL SCHOOL
One of several 'female schools' in 19th century Hillsborough, The Burwell School was enlarged in 1848 from a 1821 dwelling built by William Adams. Reverend Burwell was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church
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Burwell School, undated - likely early 20th c. (History of the Town of Hillborough 1754-1966)
From the Individual and District National Register nominations:
The oldest portion of the Burwell School was a two-story frame dwelling having a hall and parlor plan built early in the nineteenth century. It measured approximately 18 feet by 24 feet. In 1848 the Reverend Robert Burwell employed Captain John Berry to enlarge the house. Berry was the architect of the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough and is known to have enlarged and embellished many houses in the region. Under Berry the house Was given its present central hall plan, the two older rooms lying on one side of the hall and two new ones on the other. This created a new east-west orientation for the buildlng. The resulting principal five-bay facade facing east featured a on one-story shed porch running the full 52 feet. With its moulded weather- boards, green blinds and shed porch the building was far more closely related to older structures than to the then popular Greek Revival mode typified by Berry's Courthouse nearby. In the late nineteenth century the house was remodeled by Jule Gilmer Korner of Kernersville, a noted local artist and designer of the period. Some of Kerner's modifications included a bracket cornice, "gingerbread" porch, a new stair in the hall and several mantels including a marble one in the parlor. At the rear of the house is a picturesque two-room brick kitchen. In the garden an early brick privy has survived.
1971 (National Register nomination)
The Burwell School is sited on a large sloping lot facing North Churton Street at the southwest corner of the intersection with West Union Street. The terraced front lawn with plentiful hardwoods adds to the historic setting. Historically the property is known as lots 152 and 153. The original owner of this property was a local tavern-keeper and businessman named William Adams. Adams built the original structure in 1821 facing West Union Street. It was a two-story house with two rooms on each floor, which are still present today as the south rooms of the Burwell School. In 1836, the property was conveyed to the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church as a manse for the new pastor, Reverend Robert Burwell. In 1837, the Rev. Burwell and his wife, Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell, began a “Female School” in the manse, which remained in operation until 1857. In 1848, the Burwells purchased the house and hired John Berry to add the large north living room and the bedroom above it. In 1857, the Burwells closed the school and the house was occupied briefly by refugees from Edenton during the Civil War. Dr. J. S. Spurgeon purchased the home in 1895 and his family remodeled the home and occupied it until 1965. At that time it was purchased and restored by the Historic Hillsborough Commission, who still own the property.
From Gardens of Old Hillsborough, 1971
Reverend Robert Burwell and his wife, Margaret Anna, conducted their well-known "Female School" here from 1837 to 1857. The gracious old house looks down across a great sweep of green lawn shaded by a magnificent Linden, a great Sugar Maple and a gnarled Osage Orange. The property is in process of restoration by the Historic Hillsborough Commission.
At one time, this was the home of the J. S. Spurgeon family. Mrs. Spurgeon has given us an account of the garden as it was in the early 1900s.
South of the house, running north and south, there was a wide flower border, which separated the lawn in front from the well-kept vegetable garden at the rear. This bed contained old-fashioned everblooming red roses (probably China roses) red peonies, and spring bulbs of many varieties. This was the only flower bed in the garden.
A long gravel walk connected the front of the house with Churton Street. Its outline can still be traced. A cedar rail fence protected the garden along the length of Churton Street, and tall cedars grew at either side of the front gate. Quantities of red tulips and daffodils were planted along the south boundary.
A flower pit was a necessary feature of the old garden. Within its capacious brick walls many ornamental plants were carried over the winter, to be brought out in warm weather to decorate the front of the house. Among these were geraniums, begonias, calla lilies, ferns, and large plumbago plants, grown in wooden tubs. Two citrinas were also carried over in large half-barrels in the pit, their "lemonessence" much appreciated at all seasons.
There were two springs in the garden, one directly at the back of the house fed a small stream, its banks planted to spring bulbs, blooming with the Virginia Bluebells and yellow cowslips. A second spring at the lower side of the vacant, or "lucerne lot" supplied a small marsh, where bull rushes grew and there were masses of Royal Fern.
Several old roses have remained for our pleasure. Particularly interesting is the bush musk rose, undoubtedly of great age, and standing seven feet high. It produces in spring clusters of creamywhite double Bowers, with a characteristic honey-musk fragrance.
Old descriptions of the plantings here are being closely followed in the restoration of the grounds.
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THE CANADA SCHOOL (FIRST LOCATION)
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MISS HEARTT'S SCHOOL
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1900-1915 (History of the Town of Hillsborough: 1754-1966)
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HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY
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From NCPedia, by Jean Anderson
Hillsborough Academy was the name given various schools established by prominent citizens of the town of Hillsborough over a period of 80 years. A school chartered in 1779 as Science Hall seems to have evolved into Hillsborough Academy by the time it opened in 1785. Subscriptions were raised among a number of North Carolinians for its establishment and the purchase of confiscated Loyalists' land, but the money was used only to repair the old Anglican church for use as the school building. The first principals of the academy were Benjamin Perkins and Solomon Pinto, both graduates of Yale. Zadoc Squire replaced Pinto as principal in 1787. The board of trustees included such illustrious eighteenth-century figures as William Hooper, Nathaniel Rochester, Thomas Hart, John Kinchen, Thomas Burke, James Hogg, and William Johnston. The curriculum had a practical bent but included classical subjects as well. Never a thriving institution, the school seems to have closed in 1790 after Zadoc's death.
A second classical academy with the same name opened a decade later. In 1801 Hillsborough Academy was advertised as a school for "youth of both sexes" by trustees Walter Alves, William Kirkland, William Whitted, William Cain, and Duncan Cameron. The first principal, Andrew Flinn, was a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. With an assistant, Flinn taught the classics, English, the "three R's," bookkeeping, and "the plainer branches of mathematics." Little is known of the female department beyond its existence under the direction of Elizabeth Russell in 1812 and a Miss Farly in 1815. The girls were taught needlework, painting, and drawing in addition to the elementary subjects. Thereafter no mention is made of the school's commitment to female education. For more than 25 years, the school for boys had a precarious existence under a series of short-lived principals.
The Hillsborough Academy was again chartered in 1814, and in 1815 a Mr. Graham, not otherwise identified, was principal. In 1818 another Presbyterian minister, John Knox Witherspoon, became headmaster. Strict Presbyterianism assumed a prominent role in the curriculum; boys were required to attend morning and evening worship as well as church on Sunday, on which day they had to refrain from every kind of amusement including riding, walking, visiting, or studying. A new headmaster, John Rogers, served from 1821 through 1824. In 1825 another Presbyterian minister, the Reverend William Hooper, son of the signer of the Declaration of Independence of the same name, took over.
With the arrival in 1827 of William James Bingham, the son of Presbyterian minister William Bingham, however, the school began its upward ascent to fame if not fortune. From 1827 until 1843, under the younger Bingham's direction, the school became synonymous with his name. He showed his mettle in 1839 when a student plot to resist authority was discovered. He accosted the renegades and commanded submission, routing the ringleader after the boy came at him with a pistol. Known as "the Napoleon of schoolmasters," Bingham kept the boys in line and the standards high. Enrollment was more than 100 students.
When Bingham moved to the country to open his own school in 1844, Hillsborough Academy continued under his brother John Archibald Bingham and coprincipal James H. Norwood, both of whom had taught there. The next year they resigned, Norwood opened his own school, and John Witherspoon returned to head the academy. He had as an assistant James H. Horner, a former student and later a noted schoolmaster himself.
Just as the old academy was floundering without a strong principal, it became subsumed in the Caldwell Institute, the creation in 1836 of the Orange Presbytery, under principal Alexander Wilson. A serious epidemic of typhoid fever had prompted Caldwell to leave Greensboro and relocate. Hillsborough citizens paid for the refurbishment of the academy building to accommodate the new school, which at first thrived but by 1849 had declined. Wilson resigned in 1850 and moved to Alamance County to open a school of his own.
The Hillsborough Military Academy used the brick school building in 1851 while their own campus was under construction. In approximately 1880, the school was deconstructued and the bricks were used to build the Webb tobacco company on Court Street downtown (which was in turn demolished in 1966).
08.13.2016 (G. Kueber)
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CEDAR GROVE ACADEMY
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Circa 1900 (from History of the Town of Hillsborough)
The Cedar Grove Academy was built circa 1845, and operated funtil 1915. Samuel W. Hughes founded of the Academy. Orange County bought the Academy in 1914.
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NORTH CAROLINA INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR COLORED GIRLS ("EFLAND HOME")
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