Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome building architecture outdoor black and white Falling Creek Academy (aka Falling Creek School), Wayne County, NC; dated 1902-1904. Students and teachers pose in a group in front of a large frame school house with a bell cupola on the roof. A sign on the building states: “Built by Henry Johnson, Contractor and Builder, Goldsboro, N.C.” There is no ID label. Handwritten on the back of the mounting card is “Falling Creek Academy, Wayne County, (consolidated).” “The Hage Studio/A.O. Clement, Manager/Goldsboro, N.C.” is stamped on the back of the mounting card. Falling Creek High School was the first public school in Wayne County, established in 1840 in the Grantham community between Beaverdam Creek and the Neuse River. Falling Creek joins Beaverdam Creek in western Wayne County. John E. Hage was a photographer active in Goldsboro in partnership with Albert O. Clement, 1904-1905. Clement operated his own studio in Goldsboro 1905-1936. From the Wayne County Schools Photo Collection, PhC.209, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC. Falling Creek Academy (aka Falling Creek School), Wayne County, NC; dated 1902-1904. Students and teachers pose in a group in front of a large frame school house with a bell cupola on the roof. A sign on the building states: “Built by Henry Johnson, Contractor and Builder, Goldsboro, N.C.” There is no ID label. Handwritten on the back of the mounting card is “Falling Creek Academy, Wayne County, (consolidated).” “The Hage Studio/A.O. Clement, Manager/Goldsboro, N.C.” is stamped on the back of the mounting card. Falling Creek High School was the first public school in Wayne County, established in 1840 in the Grantham community between Beaverdam Creek and the Neuse River. Falling Creek joins Beaverdam Creek in western Wayne County. John E. Hage was a photographer active in Goldsboro in partnership with Albert O. Clement, 1904-1905. Clement operated his own studio in Goldsboro 1905-1936. From the Wayne County Schools Photo Collection, PhC.209, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC. |