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Ararat School, Forerunner of JJ Jones High School

Title: Ararat School, Forerunner of JJ Jones High School
Description: Ararat School, The forerunner of the present Jones - North Main School consisted of 71 students, 3 teachers and a 4 room building, all of whom are shown here. Owners of the photo are Ernest McCloud, seated on the ground and Mrs. Gertrude Bowman McCloud, standing beside her sisters in second row, center. The sisters are wearing identical dresses. Miss Jessup a teacher, has her hand on Mrs. McCloud, who lived in Washington D.C., Mrs. Gracie Dyson on Wards Gap Road during the Christmas holidays.
Subject: Mount Airy (N.C.); JJ Jones School; Ararat School; Surry County (N.C.); African American; African American
Source: copied from a book "Honor The Past Strengthen The Future" by Edward McDaniels and Rodney Ray McDaniel
Date: 1926
Contributor: Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Format: photograph
Type: still image
Identifier: Mta_JJJS_i2505.005_mam
Coverage: Mount Airy (N.C.)
Is Part Of: African American; Ararat School; JJ Jones School; Mount Airy (N.C.); Surry County (N.C.)