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.S' C 0 C 0 A A t € BUCHANAN HIGH SCHOOL Tho Buchanan High School was established in 1901 ns Botetourt's first high school, by the eitizons of the town of Buchanan. The old bank building, located bclor; the town where tho present olcracntary school building now stands, was con- verted into a school building and tho school opened for its first session in 1S01 under the principalship of r. i!r. Hart. The school at this tine offered work on the two-year level. Hr. Hart died before the oponing of tho session 1902-03, and he was replaced by Hiss Lclin Holmes, a college trained woman who contributed much to the develop- ment of the school during its early years. In 1906 the High School Act was passed, making possible the appropriation of money to the high schools of the State, and Buchanan received for the first year an appropriation of §250,which was less than the. maximum appropriation. This and succeeding appropriations from tho State made possible for the school rapid growth, and by 1907-08 there was being offered four years of high school work. T-.e first graduating class under the four-year system consisted of two girls and one boy. The following year, 1910-11, the school graduated a class of five girls and one boy. The old bank building was Buchanan's only school building until 1916, when the county erected a large two-story brick building on the samo lot, at a cost of $20,000; Fifteen thousand dollars was borrowed from the Literary Fund, and the remaining five thousand was furnished by the County board and the citizens of Buchanan. The building was thought to be adequate for tho need of 3uchanan and vicinity for the next twenty-five years, but the advantage of the bettor graded school and high school as found in the town as compared with the country schools, and the advent of good roads increased tho enrollment of the Buchanan school until further provision had to bo made. In 1926 the County authorized a bond issue of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the orcction of additional buildings in the te' 17
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