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Title: The uplift (serial)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School (Concord, N.C.)
Subjects: Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School (Concord, N.C.) Reformatories Juvenile detention homes
Publisher: Concord, N.C. : Board of Trustees of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ofthree hundred acres,on the Southern rail-way, and three milessouth of the station inConcord (the law re-quiring its locationthis distance from anincorporated town)was accepted by theBoard. now members of the Board. real estate offered ranging fromsev.eral thousand dollars to an amount be-yond the funds in hand. The matterwas brought to the attention of sev-eral influential gentlemen of Concord, THE BEGINNING. On the first day ofJanuary, 1908, Mr.Walter Thompson,having been unani-mously elected as firstsuperintendent, t o-gether with the Execu-tive committee beganactual construction ofthe plant on the meag-er appropriation. Atno expense to thestate or to the Boardof Trustees, several ofthe officials of the in-stitution visited otherwell-established insti-tutions of other states.By this method, thegathered and the mis- good wastakes avoided. A STRUGGLE. The year of 1908 will be an event inin th-j lives of Mr. Thompson and his TWO THE UPLIFT BircTs-Eye View of a Section. January, 1915
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From the top of the Roth Industrial Building this picture was taken. It shows all of the present buildings except the barn,the flower hot-house, two tenant houses, the Industrial Building and a handsome stone chapel nearing completion, and whichis the product of the love and efforts of The King s Daughters of North Carolina associates that will refuse to be for-gotten. It was a time of sacrifice,hardships, distress and the STAK-ING OF ALL that the propositionmight be made to go, that debtmight be avoided, that successmight be had and that an account ofa faithful stewardship could be ren-dered to the authorities. JANUARY 12th, 1909Is the date of the institutionsopening, and on that day its firstpupil arrived from the town of Bur-lington. The capacity was soon tax-ed. It has been a steady growthsince. It has been a slow growth.It was for a time an experiment, allwas new to the officials. It is to-day no longer an experiment—it isan accomplishment. MANY DIFFICULTIES. Were encountered f

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