Miller's Ferry Normal and Industrial School was a private
segregated boarding school for African American students established in 1884 in
Miller's Ferry, Alabama, U.S. The school was founded by the
Northern Presbyterian Church, and had an on-campus training hospital for student nurses.
History
The school was funded by the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, and supported by the Northern Presbyterian Church.
In 1908, the school had 303 enrolled students and 14 teachers.
Many of the teachers were from
Knoxville College
Knoxville College is an unaccredited private historically black college in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1875 by the United Presbyterian Church of North America. The college is a United Negro College Fund member sch ...
.
The Miller's Ferry Normal and Industrial School taught programs in music, nursing,
domestic science
Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences (often shortened to FCS or FACS), is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and f ...
, sewing and dressmaking, carpentry, blacksmithing, printmaking, and the study of laundry.
In 1914, the campus had one main building, four dormitories for students (separated by gender), teacher housing, a laundry building, a printshop, a blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop, a sewing building, and a training hospital.
C.H. Johnson served as principal in 1910.
Isaiah Hamilton Bonner, a former student of the school, served as principal in 1917.
The
Alabama Department of Archives and History
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama. Under the direction of Thomas M. Owen its founder, the agency received state funding by an act of the Alabama Legislatu ...
hold photographs and records of the school in their library archives.
See also
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Camden Academy
References
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Educational institutions established in 1884
Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama
Presbyterian schools in the United States
Schools in Wilcox County, Alabama
Boarding schools in Alabama
Defunct schools in Alabama