The Carpenter School

Title

Subject

School

Description

These are a collection of Florence newspaper articles related to the Carpenter School.

The Carpenter High School was founded in the Canaan neighborhood of southwest Florence in 1876 by the American Missionary Association and originally the pastors of First Congregational Church (ca. 1875-ca. 1939) at 115 N Seminary Street were principals of the school.

By 1894 the school was meeting at Leach's Hall on West College Street.

In November of 1894 Prof. Young A. Wallace had taken a hiatus from his job as principal and teacher of Florence's District School for Negroes and was teaching the Carpenter High School. By June of 1895 Miss Mary L. Corpier, a graduate of Fisk University, was the assistant to the principal, Rev. William L. Johnson and by April of 1897 was in charge of the school and it's teacher. By 1897 the school had 60 pupils who paid .50 per month tuition.

How long the school was in operation isn't known however First Congregational Church itself had closed it doors around 1939 and by 1940 the Methodist Community Church (now Tennessee Valley Community Church) was meeting in the old Congregational building at 115 N Pine Street.

Source

Florence (AL) Gazette (1, 2)
Lauderdale (AL) News (3)
Florence (AL) Herald (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
Florence (AL) Times (4)

Publisher

Newspapers.com (1 ,2, 3, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

Bell & Howell Micro Photo Division (4)

Date

1879-07-02 (1)
1880-05-22 (2)
1883-05-31 (3)
1890-05-21 (3)
1895-06-29
1897-04-09
1897-05-13 (4)
1897-09-23 (5)
1898-05-12
1898-11-24
1899-05-04
1900-07-16

Contributor

Lee Freeman

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