New Sight School - New Sight, MS
N 31° 39.357 W 090° 26.820
15R E 742077 N 3505133
Marker gives brief history of this long gone school.
Waymark Code: WM116JJ
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2019
Views: 2
In 1921 the Confederate Grove, Garner, Clear Branch, and Mt. Zion community schools consolidated to create the Now Sight School, once located on this site. Established under the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, designed to promote vocational, agricultural, and domestic science education in public schools. The New Sight School opened with an enrollment of 248 students, eight teachers, and Mr. O.F. Grantham as the first principal. The New Sight School closed tn 1960.
Date Installed:: 2014
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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