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years after the fire, concerned individuals from the community made various efforts to help maintain consistent, quality education for
African American children. Small private schools, such as the Carey (Carrie) Jones School on Roberson Street and the Pendle School on McDade Street, emerged to support the cause. In 1924, a man named Henry Stroud donated land to begin the construction of the new Orange County Training School. The total cost of construction of the newly built O.C.T.S. was $ 23,112, and it became the largest
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Freedmen School between 1898 and 1912. After starting the Hackney school and serving as its principal and one of the two history teachers, Hackney sold the property for $ 2300. The Hackney School merged with Quaker Freedmen School to become the Orange County Training School in 1916. Despite widespread racial discrimination at the time, Hackney amassed enough wealth to acquire and own land from 1878 until he died in 1937. Records state that he also sold land to the
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Quaker School from 1898 to 1912, allowing him to establish a firm leadership position within the Chapel Hill community. Hackney was able to use this influence to obtain funding from local black families who were frustrated with the lack of available secondary education. On May 22, 1913, Louis H. Hackney and his wife Lara purchased a piece of land just south of the
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immensely, funding became increasingly problematic. As a result, Dr. Hackney was approached by the Orange County Board of
Directors with the idea to consolidate his Hackney School and the Quaker Freedmen School into one unified institution. He agreed, and in 1919, after operating the Hackney School for seven years, he sold it and the land to
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Hackney school. In an interview with Bob Gilgor, she recalled her time at the school from 1st grade to when Orange County Training School burned down. In the same interview she recalled her time attending Carey (Carrie) Jones' home school before her transfer to Hackney. Similarly,
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for much of his life, presiding over many congregations in the Chapel Hill area. These included: New Hope
Ministry Baptist Church, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and First Baptist Church (formerly known as White Rock Baptist Church). Reverend Dr. Hackney's experience in education began as principal of the
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Hackney School, also known as Hackney’s Educational and Industrial School, Hackney High School, or “Hack’s High” was established in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1913. Its namesake, Louis H. Hackney served as the pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church in the late 1800s and principal of the nearby
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Carey (Carrie) Jones taught at not only the
Hackney School, but also at the Quaker School, American Missionary Association subscription school, and later the Orange County Training school. She also ran a school out of her home on Robeson Street. Mrs. Frances Hargraves, born in 1914, was one of the
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Freedmen School, which taught grades one through seven, and was open from October to March, the Hackney School was established to give African American children access to sustained quality education for longer portions of the year. However, although the school benefitted the children
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