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- 1 2 Staff Reports (November 5, 2008). "Forgotten Trails: Downing Shoffner Institute still teaching lessons". The Brewton Standard.
- ↑ Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Alabama (January 8, 1900). "Minutes of the Alabama Conference of the M.E. Church, South". The Conference – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "PATRON + "Downing Industrial School for Girls" was ahead of its time – Alabama Pioneers". www.alabamapioneers.com.
- ↑ "CONTENTdm". digital.archives.alabama.gov.
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- ↑ "Downing-Shofner School Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ↑ "Announcement and calendar of the Downing Industrial School for Girls in Brewton, Alabama". alabamamosaic.org.
- ↑ "Catalogs of the Downing Industrial School for Girls in Brewton, Alabama". alabamamosaic.org.
- 1 2 Staff Reports (February 25, 2004). "Shofner founded girls' school". The Brewton Standard.
