Education
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- Meredith College Archives – historical documents online; your ancestors may be included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
- Annual Reports to the Trustees
- Shaw University Bulletins:
- 1936 - Summer Session Edition | Annual Report of the President
- 1937 - President Inauguration Edition
- 1938 - Summer Session Edition | Founder’s Day Edition | Commencement Edition
- 1940 - Diamond Jubilee Edition
- 1943 - Summer Session Edition
- 1945 - Alumni Edition | Summer Session Edition
- 1946 - Summer Session Edition
- 1949 - Summer Session edition
- 1951 . Summer School edition
- 1952
- 1953
- 1955
- 1956
- 1959
- 1961
- 1962
- Shaw University Journal – Commencement Edition (1938)
- Commencement Programs - 1901 | 1903 | 1905 | 1906 | 1908 | 1938 | 1940 | 1941 | 1952 | 1963
- Yearbooks – The Bear: 1951 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
- 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
