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Stonewall Jackson High School is a former high school in Kanawha County, West Virginia. It opened in 1940, and closed in 1989. It was located on the West Side of Charleston, West Virginia. In 1989, Stonewall Jackson High School and Charleston High School consolidated to become Capital High School. The building is now a middle school.
The high school movement is a term used in educational history literature to describe the era from 1910 to 1940 during which secondary schools as well as secondary school attendance sprouted across the United States. During the early part of the 20th century, American youth entered high schools at a rapid rate, mainly due to the building of new ...
First Digital Photo: 1957 Russell Kirsch: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States Photo composite of two binary scans [s 2] [s 4] Elizabeth Eckford: 1957 Will Counts: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States Eckford as one of the Little Rock Nine who faced opposition while attending a formerly segregated high school. [s 2] [s 4] [s 7]
Between 1910 and 1940, the high school movement resulted in rapidly increasing founding of public high schools in many cities and towns and later with further expansions in each locality with the establishment of neighborhood, district, or community high schools in the larger cities which may have had one or two schools since the 19th century ...
From 1876 to 1890, Union School was the first location which housed Kanawha County High School. With one principal, two teachers, and about 25 students, the first graduating class consisted of two women. Union School again temporarily housed Kanawha County High School in 1903. Kanawha County High School became Charleston High School a year later.
The school also had a cheerleading squad. [5] Photographs of the basketball team [6] and of "Students and Teachers in a Kimball Negro High School Classroom, McDowell County" were taken in 1950. [7] The football team won the WVAU state football championship in 1952. [8] Kimball High School was converted into a junior high school in 1966. [8]
1916 - Old Huntington High School opens. 1917 - Liggett and Myers Tobacco factory built. 1919 - Simms School Building opens. 1920 - Population: 50,177. 1923 - West Virginia Colored Children's Home opens. 1924 Foster Memorial Home opens. Memorial Arch is built. St. Mary's Hospital opens. St. Joseph Central Catholic High School is established. 1925
1940 West Virginia elections (4 P) S. 1940 in sports in West Virginia (2 P) This page was last edited on 27 January 2019, at 07:57 (UTC). Text is available under the ...