Union Institute c.1907, 

Unionville, Union County, North Carolina

Postcard postmarked 1907. In 1885, residents of the Unionville area of Goose Creek Township decided that the community needed a school. Local residents provided the materials and labor for the two-story school building. Professor O. C. Hamilton became principal in 1886. Students of all ages and from all over Union Co., as well as from S.C., flocked to the private school, which provided the only boarding facilities in the area. Prof. Hamilton left the school in 1898, but returned and purchased the building in 1904.  He turned it over to the County Board of Education in 1910 before his retirement in 1911. This building no longer exists.  (Source: Sweet Union: An Architectural and Historical Survey of Union County, North Carolina, edited by Suzanne S. Pickens, 1990). 

 


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