1873-187Q

LIST OF IMPORTANT DATES

”Freedmen's Aid Society day-school begins in basement of

Warnersville Church

The Reverend w. J. Parkinson becomes principal

Twenty-acre plot purchased for permanent campus

The Reverend Edward 0. Thayer becomes second principal First building completed College courses first offered

The Reverend Wilbur Fletcher Steele becomes third princi- pal

Kent Home becomes affiliate on school grounds State of North Carolina charters school as Bennett College Dr. Charles N. Grandison, first Negro to head any of Freed-

men‘s Aid Society schools, becomes president

Dr. Jordan D. Chavis becomes president

Second building, Carolina Hall, completed

The Reverend Silas A. Peeler becomes president

Agriculture taught as industrial education course for boys '

Kent Home destroyed by fire

A second Kent Home erected

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