School—in Ferrum, Virginia in 1913 to provide educational opportunities to underprivileged youth in the state's Blue Ridge Mountains region. The Virginia Conference Woman's Home Missionary Society (VCWHMS) under President Mrs. Lee Britt wished to serve and educate the rural population of southwestern Virginia. Already in 1909, President Britt informed Benjamin Beckham, presiding elder of the Danville district, that the VCWHMS had gathered $1,200 toward constructing a school somewhere in the district. In 1911, the village of Ferrum was selected as the location of the train depot on the Norfolk and Western Railway between Roanoke and Winston-Salem. In 1912, Beckham offered to help raise $25,000, and in 1913, the society formed a board of trustees and purchased 80 acres of land for the campus from local farmer George Goode, with another 50 acres donated by citizens of the village, allowing the board to officially establish Ferrum Training School.
Construction began in earnest in 1914 and Beckham moved his family …
中文名/译名
SAT EBRW 25%
455
SAT EBRW 75%
580
SAT Math 25th %
425
SAT Math 75th %
520
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