What About Bingham Military School, Brevard Institute, Immanuel Lutheran College, Kittrell College, North Carolina College, North Carolina Medical College, Reidsville Seminary, Rutherford College?

If you’re interested in Junior Colleges in North Carolina in the early 1900s, you might be interested in www.lostcolleges.com. For example, the site takes a comprehensive look at Brick Junior College in Enfield, North Carolina, which was founded in 1895 and closed in 1933. Many private schools, colleges and junior colleges didn’t survive The Great Depression, for obvious financial reasons, and the same financial reasons forced some four-year colleges to become two-year colleges.

Read about Brick Junior College at https://www.lostcolleges.com/brick-junior-college. The post has some nice photos of students. Lostcolleges.com also has stories about the following former North Carolina colleges:

Bingham Military School, Asheville, 1793-1928

The Bingham School, Mebane, 1793-about 1921

Brevard Institute, Brevard, 1895-1933. In 1933 the campus was renovated and gifted to the Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist church to house a new junior college named Brevard College.

Immanuel Lutheran College, Concord and Greensboro, 1903-1961

Kittrell College, Kittrell, 1886-1975. Always financially strapped, Kittrell College was forced to close in 1931, Reopened in 1934, it operated until 1948. It finally operated as a high school (1953-65) and as a college (1953-75) before closing for good.

North Carolina College, Mount Pleasant,1852-1933

North Carolina Medical College, Davidson and Charlotte, 1893-1914. In 1914 Monroe closed the Charlotte facility and moved the students to Medical College of Virginia. With the graduation of the last student in 1917, N.C.M.C. ceased to exist.

Reidsville Seminary, Reidsville, 1872-1913

Rutherford College, 1853-1934, when Rutherford College, Weaver College, and Brevard Institute merged to form Brevard College.