College of the Albemarle - Beacon Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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PASQUOTANK COUNTY: First in Private Education In 1705 Charles Griffin sailed to Pasquotank County from the West Indies. At Symons Creek that year, in what is pr e s um ed t o have been a little one-room school, Griffin became the first schoolmaster of the first s c hool in North Carolina. Although this school was public in the sense that anyone could attend, it was privately supported. From 1708 until 1803, little detail is known about education in Pasquotank County except that in 1708 the Rev. Mr. James Adams took Griffin's place, and no facts about school buildings can be verified. Legend says that the original Nixonton Academy building was the courthouse of 1780, moved to its p r e s e nt sit e on Symons Creek Road. The later Academy, generally considered to have been founded about 1884, probably was a continuation of the old Academy. The Thomas Davis ofthe 1888 report card on the right rowed across Little River at Durant's Neck to attend the Nixonton Academy where for a fee ofS1 .20 a typical student could attend the academy for 8X4 of a month. V- . , l PASQUOTANK Cigg?:Z9g?NATE SCHOOLS W Later pupils trudged miles through all sorts of 1803 Nixonton Academy, Nixontony N, C. weather to attendavariety of private schools--some 1809 Newland Academy, N6-W12-Hd, N. C. in the rural areas and others in Elizabeth City. 1820 Elizabeth City Academy, Elizabeth City, N. C. CBoys educated in the Christ Epis- copal Church old parish housej 1870 I. M. Tillett School for Boys, Elizabeth City, N. C. 1872 P. w. Melick School, Elizabeth City, N.c. ...fee 1876 Atlantic Collegiate Institute, Elizabeth City, N. C. Many private schools continued to operate after public e d u c at io n came into being. For example, these pupils attended Lister School for the 1905- 1 906 school year.