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Governor Morehead School
Governor Morehead School (GMS), formerly North Carolina State School for the Blind and Deaf, is a Kâ12 public school for the blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the era of de jure educational segregation in the United States, it served blind people of all races and deaf black people. Its namesake is John Motley Morehead, Governor of North Carolina. History In 1845 the school was established; it took ages 5â21. It served African-American students from the beginning, in separate facilities under educational segregation in the United States. In 1898 a dormitory for the school was built by Frank Pierce Milburn. It was the first American school to educate black, blind, and deaf students. In 1923 white students moved to its current site in Raleigh, while black students were on the original campus, in Garner. The school took both deaf and blind black students. - "Morganton and Wilson" refer to North Carolina School for the Deaf and the East North Carolina School for the Deaf Clipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeast, the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro area. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The city covers a land area of . The U.S. Census Bureau counted the city's population as 474,069 in the 2020 census. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County. Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University (NC State) and is part of the Research Triangle together with Durham (home of Duke University and North Carolina Central University) and Chapel Hill (home of the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times-News (Burlington, North Carolina)
''The Times-News'' is an American, English language daily newspaper based in Burlington, North Carolina formed in 1931 by the merger of the ''Burlington Daily Times'' and'' The Burlington News''. History ''The Times-News'' was founded in 1887. It joined Freedom Communications Inc. in 1978, and was sold to Halifax Media Group in 2012. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group, which became Gannett in a 2019 merger. The lineage of ''The Times-News'' is as follows: * ''The Times-News'' (1989present), publisher: Times-News Pub. Co. * ''The Daily Times-News'' (19321989), publisher: Times-News Pub. Co. * ''Burlington Daily Times-News'' (19311932), publisher: Burlington News Co. * ''Burlington Daily Times'' (1923-1931), publisher: Burlington News Co. (January 18, 1923) * ''The Burlington News'' (1887-1931), publisher: J.R. Ireland & Co. In November of 2022 Paxton Media Group acquired The Burlington News-Times and five other North Carolina newspapers from Gannett Co., In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
