King High School - Cabin Yearbook (King, NC)

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'R--Qi' D fe .. , r 1 I . i:'. 25'.v':4, g 'EM L 's ' ' 'Q :'iQ5EE?5l nKING'S CABINW WISHING To IMPRINT UPON THE MINDS OF ouR READERS SDME- THING OF THE HISTORICAL BADKGRDUND OF OUR TowN AND OF OUR SCHOOL, WE HAVE GHOSEN FOR ouR SCHOOL'S FIRST ANNUAL THE TITLE, 'KlNG'S CABlN.n IN DOING THIS, WE WISH T0 sHow OUR APPRECIATION To ALL THDSE wHo HAvE CONTRIBUTED To THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SMALL COMMUNITY, MAKING IT WHAT IT IS TODAY, WE ARE ESPECIALLY INDEBTED TD MR. THEODORE NEWSOME FDR THE HISTORICAL FACTS AND PICTURES HEREWITH PRESENTED. FOLLOWING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR A MIGRATORY SPIRIT SEEMED To SWEEP THE DDDNTRY. MANY VETERANS PASSED THROUGH STOKES COUNTY wHERE SOME SETTLED FOR A TIME, AND THEN DDN- TINUED wESTwARD, WHILE OTHERS REMAINED HERE. AMONG THESE WHO PASSED THIS WAY WAS A MAN BY THE NAME DF CHARLES KING, WHO BUILT A LITTLE LOG GADIN NEAR WHERE THE HOME OF A. S. FRANCIS NOW STANDS. IT WAS FDR THIS MAN AND HIS CABIN THAT THE LITTLE TowN NOW CALLED KING wAs NAMED nKING'S CABlN.n PEOPLE coNTINuED TO SETTLE IN AND AROUND HERE. IN 1887 THE RAILROAD WHICH RUNS FROM WILMINGTON TO MT, AIRY' REACH- ED KING. WITH THE COMING OF THIS ROAD THE TowN BEGAN TO REALLY GRow. MARK CHOPPLIN OPENED THE FIRST STORE IN KING. THIS STORE STOOD JUST NORTH OF THE RAILROAD CROSSING NEAR MR. FRANOlS'S HOME, THE FIRST POST OFFICE, OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS KING'S CAGIN, wAS LDGATED IN CHOPPLIN'S STORE. FOR SEVERAL YEARS THIS STORE wAS THE CENTER or TowN. SOON AFTER A RAILWAY STATION wAS BUILT BY THE GRABS BROTHERS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE coMMuNITY, THE POST OFFICE WAS MOVED T0 A POINT NEAR THE STATION. ABouT THIS TIME, DR. JAGDB KNIGHT MDVED HERE FROM CoLFAx. HE LIvED IN A SMALL Loc House wHIoH STOOD JUST AcRoss THE ROAD FROM THE O. L. RAINS HOME. WDDDW MADE MOST OF HIS MEDICINE FRDM HERBS, HE ALSO MADE GooD SHOES! EVEN BEFORE Doc KNIGHT MOVED T0 KING THE TOWN HAD ITS FIRST SCHOOL, A SMALL DNE-RDDM LOG GADIN, WHICH STOOD NEAR WHERE MRS. P. W. GUNTER NOW LIVES. WINGE FULTON wAS THE FIRST TEACHER. LATER THIS BUILDING wAS REPLADED BY A FRAME BUILDING wHIcH NOW FORMS PART OF THE GDNTER RESIDENGE. ' IN 1904 THE scHooL DISTRICT KNOWN AS HARDLucx AND HUSTLER wERE CONSOLIDATED INTO THE KING SCHOOL DISTRIDT, AND A NEw TWO-ROOM FRAME BUILDING wAS EREDTED. IT STooD ABOUT wHERE THE HARD SURFACE ROAD PASSES T0 THE REAR OF THE H. S. HUTOHENS HOME. IN 1909 THIS TWO-ROUM BUILDING wAs JAGKED up AND Two ROOMS PUT DNDERNEATH THE OLD ROOMS. THIS WAS THE YEAR KING AE , . -yas 9 i' New f AS W R'-T'k'S'D :TIQAQ-Q .4 , 'D' 4121! 'Ys'i'F'1'fSS'5'-A TRS-SAR --QTY N..-RI qi5gSs.: ' is-3F?1S'?+Tf'T-'2 R55-Nc 5'-3524.4 .LSD-?.'Q. ' eq zgiygy- 4 MRSA 3 -4, 1,5610 x ,QSEQQHRQQ I- ...FL KK -C 'QEQQQEQH STDERR ' 15-ssdv . fzfwv-Si -.a.E,Q1fS.R-:gpg IN ,sara ' '. 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