- Title
- Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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- Date
- 1910
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- Creator
- ["Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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CATHERINE HALL, GIRLS’ DORMITORY, MISSISSIPPI INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE, HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS.
Mississippi Industrial College
Holly Springs, Miss.
D. C. Potts, President
THE Mississippi Industrial College was founded in 1905 bv
Bishop E. Cottrell, of the Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church. There were 14 teachers and an enrollment of
nearly 500 pupils in 1909. Twenty of the students were in the
theological department. The annual expenses are $15,000,
secured largely from public collections. The institution has a
farm of one hundred and ten acres, worth $20,000; two brick
buildings, worth $60,000; other property, worth $10,000.
Its work includes the work done in the usual literary schools
and lays great emphasis upon industrial training. Money is
being raised, and one half of it is now on hand, for the erection
of a main building. Upon the completion of this building, Mr.
Andrew Carnegie, through Bishop Cottrell's instrumentality,
has promised the institution another building worth $25,000.
The institution now needs a large stock barn to accommodate
at least forty horses and the same number of milch cows, with all
the modern equipments and improvements for such buildings.
It needs a hospital to care for the sick; needs a brick machine
with a sufficient capacity to make bricks for additional build¬
ings; needs at least eight hundred or a thousand more acres of
land for agricultural purposes.
The institution has been mainly built and fostered by public
collections of the masses. It is a struggle to maintain such a
school with no other source from which to draw, and a million
dollars endowment is wanted for it.
Industrial shops are needed, such as carpenter shop, black¬
smith shop, and tools sufficient to equip the same. The students
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BISHOP E. COTTRELL’S RESIDENCE, HOLLY SPRINGS
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