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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Colonel Joseph E. Pogue, President Board of Directors.
In 1843 the question of establishing a school for educating
the deaf and dumb was agitated. Mr. W. D. Cooke, of Vir-ginia,
came to the State the same year and went into several
counties, giving exhibitions of the manner of teaching the deaf
and dumb.
Governor Morehead urged the establishment by the State of
such an institution. On January 12, 1845, a bill entitled "An
act to provide for the education and maintenance of poor and
indigent deaf-mutes and blind persons in the State" was
passed. The sum of $5,000 annually was appropriated.
The act placed this fund under the supervision of the
"president and directors of the library board." The board
was composed of Governor Graham, ex officio, president of
the board, and Weston R. Gales, David Stone, Charles Manly,
and R. S. Myers.
The board secured a building in Hillsboro Street, and the
school was organized by the appointment of William D. Cooke,
A.M., principal. On the first day of May, 1845, the school
was opened with seven pupils, and during the session seven-teen
entered.
At the session of the General Assembly in 1847 an act was
passed to provide for the erection of a suitable building for
the deaf-mutes and blind persons in the State. The act ap-propriated
only $5,000, but provided that the surplus out of
the annual appropriations, amounting to $10,000, be placed
in the hands of the board.
On the 14th day of April, 1848, the corner-stone of the
main building, on Caswell Square, was laid by the Grand
Lodge of Masons, under the direction of William F. Collins,
M. W. G. M., after which an address was made by Rev.
Samuel S. Bryan, of New Bern.
Object Description
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| Title | Seventieth anniversary exercises of the State School for the Blind and the Deaf, Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday, November 4, 1915 |
| Creator | Governor Morehead School. |
| Date | 1916 |
| Subjects |
North Carolina State School for the Blind and the Deaf |
| Place | Raleigh (Wake County, N.C.) |
| Publisher | Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards and Broughton Printing Co.,1916. |
| Agency-Current | N.C. Department of Health and Human Services |
| Rights | State Document see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,63754 |
| Physical Characteristics | 62 p.: ill.; 23 cm. |
| Collection |
North Carolina State Documents Collection. State Library of North Carolina |
| Type | text |
| Language | English |
| Digital Characteristics-A | 82 p.; 17.24 MB |
| Digital Collection |
North Carolina Digital State Documents Collection N.C. Public Health Collection |
| Digital Format | application/pdf |
| Audience | All |
| Pres File Name-M | pubs_pubh_seventiethanniversary1916.pdf |
| Pres Local File Path-M | \Preservation_content\StatePubs\pubs_pubh\images_master |
| OCLC number | 3266814 |
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