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    • French Broad River & Valley Views
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  • HIST. I
    • Timeline
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    • Etowah History Notes - Research To Date
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek/Muskogee Translation
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • HIST. II
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Farms of Early Etowah
    • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960 >
      • 1st Annual 1938 -The Chief
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Students & Faculty EHS
      • EHS Memorabilia
      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
    • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Etowah Institute 1911
    • Schools of Nearby Communities
    • Historic Churches
    • Historic Cemeteries >
      • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
      • Adopt-A-Cemetery: Thomas-Fletcher
  • HIST. III
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • HIST. IV
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • HIST. V
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • Stories
    • Eade Anderson, Reverend
    • Lois Adcock Bayne
    • Emma Louise Curtis Bradley
    • Richard Brown
    • Patricia Bell Cantrell
    • Jerri Whiteside Lambeth
    • Wanda Sumner Love
    • David S. Mallett
    • Opal Dalton Parkinson
    • Jeannie Huggins Revis
    • Glenda Maxwell Simpson
    • Marylin Annette Jones Thomas
    • "The Follies" & "Matilda's Folly"
  • About
ETOWAH INSTITUTE

Established 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church


"School opens August 1st, 1911 to March 24, 1912.
For further information address the principal.  M. A. Matheson, Etowah N.C."

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Principal Matheson in front of the door.
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Cover, Etowah Institute 1911. The eleven page booklet ("Catalogue") provides details on the school's operation, location, and courses of study for grades one through ten. Includes several pages of business advertising in the back. Courtesy of Argyle Gash.
TRUSTEES
S. N. Merrill, S. B. Lance, J. W. Orr,
J. T. Woodfin and C. O. English
Associate Trustees:  Rev. W. C. Matney, Rev. A. Graybeal,
Rev. D. L. Earheardt, Rev. W. A. Patton, and Rev. M. A. Matheson.
The Etowah Institute was one of many church-based schools and colleges established to broaden educational opportunities for children in western North Carolina.  A reference to the Institute, one of many schools established by the Methodist Episcopal Church (North), appears in VanNoppen's, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War, p. 158:  "Etowah Institue near Brevard;"

From the Etowah Institute booklet:

"GOVERNMENT AND CONTROL"

"The School is owned and controlled by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the county board of education of Henderson county [sic] has the privilege of having the public school taught in the building.

​The principal has had twelve years experience in teaching
and will have able assistance to aid in teaching all the branches named in the Catalogue."​


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Principal Rev. M. A. Matheson
​More from the booklet:

"TUITION
All pupils in the Etowah pubilc [sic] school district will be admitted to free tuition up to the Eighth grade for the first four months and then they will be subject to the plans of tuition according to grade.  The first three, 1st, 2nd and third grades, will be 75 cents per month.  4th, 5th and 6th $1.00; 7th and 8th grades $1.25; 9th and 10th $1.50.  The term will be eight months.

LOCATION
The school is located in the beautiful valley of the French Broad river near the Lake Toxaway Railroad, ten miles west of Hendersonville with an altitude of about 2000 feet.  A healthful climate, also surrounded by a fine farming section and beautiful mountain scenery.  Value of school and church property $2500.00.

WHAT THE SCHOOL IS
A high preparatory school of ten grades to fit our boys and girls for College and the businesss life and also to encourage neatness, morality and good citizenship.

OPPORTUNITIES
Methodist and Presbyterian churches, preaching twice a month and Sunday school each Sabbath.  Prayer meeting Wednesday night, Library Society Friday night.

BUILDING
The building is situated on a campus of four and a half acres of land near the railroad station and postoffice [sic] with two nice recitation rooms well furnished with good desks and blackboards and otherwise arranged for the comfort of the pupils."

Additional notes cover BOARD (ten dollars per month in private homes), SPECIAL (Normal Course offered for $3 extra), and COURSE OF STUDY by Grade, 1st - 10th.
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First Grade
Graded Classics I
Practical Drawing I
Number Work
Supplementary Stories
Fourth Grade
Graded Classics IV
A Spelling Book
Practical Drawing IV
Copy Book II
Primary Arithmetic
Elementary Geography
Language Lessons I
Supplementary Stories
Tenth Grade
Third Year Latin
Plain Geometry
English Literature
General History
Supplementary Reading

  • Home
  • SPECIAL
    • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
    • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
    • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
    • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
  • PEOPLE & PLACES
    • Maps
    • Memorabilia
    • Places, Early Homes, Other
    • French Broad River & Valley Views
    • People - early times
    • People - later times
    • People - Gash Family descendants
    • Veterans
  • HIST. I
    • Timeline
    • Maps - 1838 Formation of Henderson County
    • Etowah History Notes - Research To Date
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek/Muskogee Translation
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • HIST. II
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Farms of Early Etowah
    • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960 >
      • 1st Annual 1938 -The Chief
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Students & Faculty EHS
      • EHS Memorabilia
      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
    • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Etowah Institute 1911
    • Schools of Nearby Communities
    • Historic Churches
    • Historic Cemeteries >
      • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
      • Adopt-A-Cemetery: Thomas-Fletcher
  • HIST. III
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • HIST. IV
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • HIST. V
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • Stories
    • Eade Anderson, Reverend
    • Lois Adcock Bayne
    • Emma Louise Curtis Bradley
    • Richard Brown
    • Patricia Bell Cantrell
    • Jerri Whiteside Lambeth
    • Wanda Sumner Love
    • David S. Mallett
    • Opal Dalton Parkinson
    • Jeannie Huggins Revis
    • Glenda Maxwell Simpson
    • Marylin Annette Jones Thomas
    • "The Follies" & "Matilda's Folly"
  • About