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UNION PINES
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ing was constructed in accord
ance with the latest ideas in prop
er lighting, ventilation, and heat
ing, even to the direction in
which the building was to face
with regard to the sun. The
shops were equipped with ma
chines, including lathes, design
ed and made on the premises
mainly from material cannibal
ized from burned sawmills.
Every student and, teacher was
required to attend his or her
church on the Sabbath, the rest
attended Union Church in a
body.
This school represented a most
ambitious beginning which was
planned to encompass, besides
the latest in school plant, a mod
el farm, dairy, orchard and
apiary, and also an organization
through which “Prof. John E.,”
as he was affectionately called,
sought to import speakers to
bring to the nearby farmers the
latest information on new crops,
fertilizers and methods of farm
ing.
This last item, though carried
out with the greatest sincerity,
mitigated against him when he
was defeated by one vote for the
presidency of North Carolina
A. & M. College in Raleigh. This
was because its board members
misunderstood his intent of de
veloping a school which would
feed directly into A. & M. and
thought that he was setting up
its competitor. The boys received
military instruction using the
latest model rifles and tactics as
taught by Upton.
Union Home School occupied
the front part of a considerable
tract of ground, opposite to and
across the Pee Dee Road from
the Old Union Presbyterian
Church. The Fourth and present
church building was built in
1880-1881 during the early years
of this school. The school build
ing faced the Church with a
paling fence across before it and
with cottages in the form of a
hollow U in back with the well
house in the center of the U.
The cottages were for the
boarding students who were too
far away to go home at night
Each cottage did its own house
keeping and cooking besides
studying and thus learned self
sufficiency. There was a line
through the middle of the quad
rangle, that divided the cottages
into two halves. The half on the
north side, on the side of the
Great Wagon Road from Carth
age to Fayetteville (Old Cross
Creek), was for the boys and the
other side for the girls. The rules
of conduct were very strict and
prohibited either sex from cross
ing this line except under super
vised conditions. Students came
to this school to learn, not he-'
cause they were compelled to do
so by law.
As a result of this stern but un
derstanding and gifted training,
graduates from this school were
admitted to any college or uni
versity in North Carolina with
no more formality than showiiig
their certificate of graduation.
Regularly they carried off the
highest honors in Latin, Greek
and mathematics. Many glowing
recommendations of this acad
emy, as it was sometimes called,
appeared in the press and univer
sity bulletins.
Unfortunately, four disasters
plagued and numbed the soul of
one of North Carolina’s foremost
educators, a man who is now
known to have been at least 50
years ahead of his time and thus
much misunderstood. First, his
wife, whom he had assisted
through Peace Institute in Raleigh
prior to their marriage, died
several years after the birth of
their first child, Evander Francis
Kelly, known to many as Frank
Secondly the Union School build
ing burned in 1895 as a result of
careless housekeeping in strict
disobedience of Professor Kel
ley’s instructions. Thirdly, these
school doors were finally closed
in 1902, in a time of great nation
al financial distress when money
seemed more important, unfor
tunately, to some than sound
schooling. Fourth and finally, the
loss of the presidency of A. & M
by the seeming defection of one
considered a close friend and ad
vocate, who had written of his
work most highly, blunted the
drive of one who had been the
guiding light of another of
North Carolina’s leading educa
tors, Charles Duncan Mclver, the
founder of the Woman’s College
in Greensboro, now a branch of
the University of North Carolina.
Most fortunately for the young
people of the Old North State, a
new school carrying on the tradi
tions of the old Union Home
School, has been built across the
Carthage-Vass road from the Old
Union Presbyterian Church and
the former Union Home School
grounds. Its name also carries on
the greatness of its predecessor.
A display of artifacts and docu
ments from Union Home School,
many removed during the height
of the fire, was placed on loan at
L^nion Pines, to symbolize the
co.ntinuation of the greatness of
the educational center at Victor,
North Carolina, as this communi-
■ty was known then, with the es-
tablisliment of the Union Pines
High School.
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