Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI

ETOWAH HIGH SCHOOL - MEMORIAL PLAQUE CELEBRATION 2014

HCEHI - Henderson County Education History Initiative

Etowah High School 1928 - 1960

Historic Marker Dedication
October 25, 2014

The Memorial Plaque features the names of the "feeder schools,"
the original one-room schools that many west Henderson County students
attended prior to the opening of Etowah High School in 1928:
Big Willow, Blantyre, Boylston, Etowah, Hopewell, Horse Shoe,
Oak Forest, Pleasant Grove, Rymer (Rhymer), Yale

H C E H I
Henderson County
Education History Initiative

HISTORIC PRESERVATION ROOM
documenting all of Henderson County's historic schools

WEDNESDAY's 9AM - 1PM
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

WHERE: Henderson County Board of Education - 828-697-4733
(former Rosa Edwards School)
414 4th Ave. West, Hendersonville NC, 28739
Preservation Room #201

Includes:
Notebooks documenting the history of Etowah High School 1928 - 1960
and 18 school annuals, "The Chief"
Archive currently includes: 1938 - 1942, 1947 - 1948, 1950 - 1960
The Chief was not published in these years: 1943 - 1946 WWII, 1949

HCEHI Research Committee:
Barbara Case Blain, Jean Wells Huggins & Evelyn Allison Sizemore

Thank you, Harold and Norman Allison, for building the monument to hold the plaque, featuring original bricks from the 1928 school along the capstone and base. Bricks generously provided by members of the Etowah community.