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SEWING CLASS, LINCOLN ACADEMY, KING'S MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Special effort is made by the Lincoln Academy to prepare the girls for home-makers, and
systematic training is given in all lines of housework and sewing. Nearly all the graduates
are teachers. One half the male graduates from the normal department are ministers. In
one country there are but two teachers who have not attended Lincoln Academy. The school
has five buildings. Value of the property is $25,000. Annual expenses, $4,200.
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GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, MOORHEAD, MISS.
Founded in 189', by Miss Sarah L. Emerson (its present principal), for many years
matron at Tougaloo. Six teachers and us students in 1908. Value of property,
$15,000. Annual expenses, $4,200, provided by American Missionary Association.
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CATHCART HALL, LINCOLN ACADEMY, KING'S MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Founded in 1892, by Miss E. C. Prudden. Miss Lillian S. Cathcart is principal. ThIee
hundled and eight students and 12 teachers, in 1908. ThIee points have been made mcst
prominent, first, to win students to Christ; second, to recoillize the fact that if the
colored people are to be educated it must be by those of their own race; third, to prepare
girls for home workers by systematic training in all lines of housework and sewing.
TRINITY SCHOOL, ATHENS, ALA.
Founded in 1866 by the American Missionary Association. First located in the little
brick church which had been used as barracks by the Federal Army, Athens being headquarters
for the troops guarding the railroads, by means of which Sherman's Army was
being fed in Georgia. Miss Wells and two associate teachers were protected by the
soldiers. The property is valued at $16,000. The annual expenses, $3.400, are provided
by the American Missionary Association and by tuition. Miss Ida F. Hubbard is principal.
Early in the work of Trinity, a SundaY-llChool ",as orpnized, out of which
has grown a flourishing church with its own Sunday-school and missionary societies.
The enrollment of Trinity School, in 1908, was 6 teachers and 1l)8 students. While
this is one of the smaller schools of the American Missionary Association, it covers a
large field of influence in a needy" Black Belt."
