The town school board, after considering several proposed locations, has definitely selected a site for the new school building for the colored race in Asheboro. The building will be located on a beautifully situated plot of land about 400 feet square in the eastern part of town, a few hundred yards north of Route 75. It is reached by a street which intersects 75 just west of the Carolina Power Company’s substation. It comprises the lots of George and Claud McLamb and 17 small lots lying north of these lots. The purchase price of the land was in the neighborhood of $1,325.
The cost of the new building which will be started at some time soon is expected to be in the neighborhood of $16,000. It will be built without any bond ?? or any borrowing of money. Tentative plans for the building, a one-story brick structure, have been drawn up and have been submitted to the State Department of Education and to the Rosenwald Foundation at Chicago.
Other locations proposed were the old site and a lot on North Fayetteville Street, both of which were rejected by the town board, the State department and a representative of the Rosenwald Foundation. The new site is centrally located for the colored population of the town, which numbers approximately 150. The building itself will e in the heart of the colored section of town and those who live in other colored settlements can each it easily and without having to travel the main streets of the town.
From the front page of The Courier, Asheboro, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 31, 1925
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