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Monday, June 11, 2018

Motor Boats to Help Bring Children to School, 1926

The Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., “Published Every Week in the Mountain Paradise,” Thursday afternoon, June 17, 1926. At the top of the banner: Tryon Has a Year Round Climate Equal to the Riviera.

Motor Boats to Help Bring Children to School
Chimney Rock, N.C., June 11—The Rutherford County Board of Education will shortly let the contract for the construction of a $42,000 school building in the Luremont district overlooking Lake Lure, on a commanding site recently donated for this purpose by a group of community friends.
Plans call for this building to conform to the Northern Italian type of architecture which prevails at Lake Lure, and the new school project adds one more unit to the general building program embracing scores of structures now under way. The school building with a capacity of 336 pupils is being designed to serve eventually as a graded school, but will be used during the coming fall semester as a high school. The elementary school will be located on lots 15, 16 and 17 in block 4 of the Luremont section at the junction of State Highway 20 and the Joel Chandler Harris scenic drive.
This particular location will be served not only by paved streets and roads, but by reason of the site overlooking Lure Lake itself, it will be feasible to operate large capacity motor boats which will supplement the use of the familiar school buses. This makes possible transportation accommodations for a school area twice as large as any now in operation in this state.
The Chimney Rock office of G. Lloyd Preacher, well-known Atlanta architect, is completing plans for the school, actual construction of which is scheduled to start at once so as to be ready for use this fall.

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