Williams Grove School

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Williams Grove School
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LocationE. Depot St. N side, between Hickory and Willow Sts., Angier, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°30′27″N78°44′6″W / 35.50750°N 78.73500°W / 35.50750; -78.73500 Coordinates: 35°30′27″N78°44′6″W / 35.50750°N 78.73500°W / 35.50750; -78.73500
Arealess than one acre
Built1892 (1892)
Architectural styleFront Gable one-room school
NRHP reference # 95000659 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 26, 1995

Williams Grove School is a historic one-room school located at Angier, Harnett County, North Carolina. It was built in 1892, and is a one-room frame front gable building. It measures 30 feet, 4 inches long, by 22 feet, 4 inches wide. It was moved to its present site in 1975 and subsequently restored as a museum. [2]

One-room school small rural school in which students of different ages are mixed in a single classroom

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Angier is a town in the Black River Township of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,350 at the 2010 census and estimated as of 2019 to be 5,600. Angier is a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA) as defined by the United States Census Bureau.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. Elizabeth Campbell (February 1995). "Williams Grove School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.