France. The school was later endowed by Mrs. Mary P. Mitchell, and the name was changed to the "Mitchell School".
A fire destroyed the school in 1907 and it moved to the nearby town of Lenoir, North Carolina. As that location proved inadequate, the school again relocated in 1910, this time to its current location in Misenheimer. The Mitchell School began awarding high school diplomas in 1913. In 1928, the school began offering junior college classes, called the "Mitchell Junior College", and was accredited as such in 1934. It was that year that the Pfeiffer family of New York City gave generous financial gifts to the school for construction of new buildings. The following year, the school's name was thus changed to "Pfeiffer Junior College".
During the 1950s the school began offering senior college courses, and the four-year "Pfeiffer College" was fully accredited in 1960 during the administration of Dr. J. Lem Stokes II, President.
Pfeiffer opened a satellite campus in Charlotte, approximately forty miles …
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