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Digital Gaston County, North Carolina

Education

African-American

 Rosenwald Schools

Belmont

  • Belmont, N.C. by Sue Drennan. Handwritten school project about the history of Belmont. Illustrated with photographs
  • City of Belmont by Nancy Reade Hall. 1956.

Catalogs

  • North Carolina Vocational Textile School Belmont. A general catalog for the North Carolina Vocational Textile School in Belmont, advertising its history, schedule of classes, different departments, and more.

  • Gaston College Catalogs "Over 60 years and dozens of catalogs from Gaston College are now online at DigitalNC. The publications span over six decades, from 1955 to 2018. Founded in 1952, the institution was originally called Gaston Technical Institute. Run under the banner of the School of Engineering at North Carolina State College (which changed its name to NC State University in 1962), the school was later renamed to Gaston College in 1964. These catalogs cover admissions, student registration for classes, scheduling, financial aid information, and lists of programs and classes."

  • Prospectus of Sacred Heart Academy at Belmont, Gaston County, North Carolina. by Sacred Heart Academy (Belmont, NC)1903, 53 p.

  • Gastonia Industrial Education Center Geared to Progress. A small booklet about the Gastonia Industrial Education Center, including the programs that the institution offers, its curriculum, costs, and admission requirements.

Dallas

The History of Dallas, North Carolina. Prepared by eighth grade class of 1953-54 and teacher, Mrs. Allie White Hoffman

History

  • Gaston County's Educational Heritage, 1857-1957. A booklet about the history and developments of the schools in Gaston County to 1957. Includes lists and histories of schools and their important figures, as well as the script to the play "Gaston County's Educational Heritage" based on the history of the local schools.

Gaston County eighth grade class handwritten reports, illustrated with historical photographs, produced by Gaston County schools in the 1950s:

Mount Holly

Records

Yearbooks

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