Education
December 16th, 2009
Resources for area schools. Please contribute if you have information to share.
- Wake County students from the NC Yearbook Index – the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has been making college yearbooks from across the state available online. Check this list of Wake County students for your relatives/ancestors. Not all graduates had a hometown associated, so be sure to also do a surname search. The index is an ongoing project.
- Annual report of the Raleigh township graded schools, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Historical Sketches of the Raleigh Public Schools (1876-1941-1942) – includes a history of school superintendents, and sketches of the schools in the county.
- Meredith College- women’s college in Raleigh
- yearbooks available on the NCGenWeb Digital Bookshelf Yearbooks page.
- Meredith College Archives – historical documents online; your ancestors may be included
- History of Meredith College – by Mary Lynch Johnson. Published in 1972
- Vision Revisited: A History of Meredith College 1971-1988 - by Carolyn C. Robinson
- Images: a Centennial Journey – by Suzanne Britt
- Oral History of Meredith College Alumnae – by Jean Batten Cooper
- Meredith College Archives – digital collections held by the Carlyle Campbell Library
- North Carolina State University
- yearbooks available on the NCGenWeb Digital Bookshelf Yearbooks page.
- Peace College/Peace Institute -founded in 1857 as Peace Institute but did not open until 1872.
- Yearbooks from 1902-2010 are online. Links are on the NC Bookshelf under Wake County.
- Raleigh Academy- opened in 1800
- Read about several schools in Wake county in a history of NC schools
- 1815 diary of teacher Sara Davis Nye Hutchinson
- Shaw University- a historically black college founded in the 1860s
- St. Augustine College- a historically black college founded in 1867. Yearbooks available online include:
- St. Mary’s College & High School Yearbooks online – from 1900-1989
