Bennett College
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GeoGordie
N 36° 04.287 W 079° 46.702
17S E 610006 N 3992563
In 1873, Bennett College had its beginning in the unplastered basement of the Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church (now known as St. Matthew’s Methodist Church). Seventy young men and women started elementary and secondary level studies.
{Guilford County .. Greensboro, North Carolina}
Waymark Code: WMAQY
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/17/2006
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Within five years of 1873, a group of emancipated slaves purchased the present site for the school. College level courses and permanent facilities were added. In 1926, The Women’s Home Missionary Society joined with the Board of Education of the church to make Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., formerly co-educational, a college for women. The challenges that were overcome to establish Bennett demand that today’s challenges be met and overcome to ensure her survival.
For more than 128 years women have found Bennett to be the ideal place to foster the constant rhythm of ideas.
Marker Name: Bennett College J 55
Marker Type: City
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