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HAINES NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
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AUGUSTA GEORGIA
LUCY LANEY, Principal
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One of the Leading Colored Normal and Industrial Schools of the South
LUCY LANEY
Founder and Principal of the Haines Normal and Indus
trial School.
“The Haines Normal and Industrial School” is
a eo-educational hoarding and day school for colored
young people, under the care of the Hoard of Mis
sions of Freedmcn, of the Presbyterian Church, locat*
ed at Augusta, Georgia. It was founded by Miss
Lucy C. Laney, one of the foremost women of her
race in America. Its purpose is to give a practical
Christian education to the boys and girls of the city
and State in which it is located. The curriculum em
braces literary and iuduxt rial courses, with special
classes for special work.
The literary course includes preparatory work,
teachers’ training course and a course for advanced
study.
The industrial course for girls embraces sew'
ing, laundry work, cooking, etc., with all that pertains
to housekeeping and liomemaking.
The young men and boys are taught carpentry,
shoemaking, printing and gardening. The printing
office has prepared a number of young men for filling
important positions. One of the graduates has a
creditable printing establishment in Brooklyn, X. Y.,
with a branch office* in New York City. Another has
charge of a newspaper pressroom in a Southern city,
while others have found employment in newspaper
and general printing offices in a number of places.
One of the early graduates of Haines is super
intendent of a large modern hospital in Augusta.
Six are teachers hi their alma mater, several in other
high-grade selna A, while many are employed in the
public schools of tlx- cities and in the rural districts.
A number of young men are ministers, some
practicing physicians, some teachers; others are en
gaged in business, in the various trades and in farm
ing.
A number of the girls arc dressmakers, while a
$64.00 Will Support a Student in this School for an Eight Months’ Term
Haines is Entirely the Work of Negro instructors from its very inception, and Both Founder and Teachers are the prodpct of Missionary Schools
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
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MARY 0. JACKSON
Co-Principal of Haines Nor
mal and Industrial
School.
number are homemakers. Not one of the 250 gradu
ates lias been a failure or brought discredit to the
school.
Especial emphasis is placed upon the training
of Christian workers in this school, for it is only
through such agencies that the people can be truly
elevated.
It was for the purpose of giving the girls and
hoys of this great State of Georgia a training that
would fit them for usefulness that Miss Laney early
in life resolved to devote herself to the work of build
ing up a Christian school, and she counted no struggle
too great that she might get the necessary prepara
tion. Never for a moment lias she faltered in her pur
pose from the day when she opened a little school in
the basement of a church in Augusta up to the pres
ent time. She began to work single-handed and alone,
and with but few pupils. As time went on her school
increased in numbers and she gained the confidence
and love of the people of the city, where her future
work was to he. For three years she did the founda
tion work of the “Haines School” of today.
AY lion the school was first established, in 1883,
it was nominally under the care of tlie board, receiv
ing from it moral support only. No financial aid was
furnished, as none was available, but Miss Laney was
granted permission to collect money from the pupils
and friends of the school to meet incidental expen
ses. In 1886 the board granted financial aid, making
it a hoarding as well as a day school. Three build'
mgs were secured for dormitories, An old barn was
fitted up for a school house, three teachers were em
ployed and the school moved from the basement to its
new quarters. Four years later, in 181)0, two new
buildings were erected, at a cost of $20,000, including
the furnishings. One, which has been used since as
the main school building, is of brick, five stories high,
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A Recent Photograph of Haines Normal and Industrial School.
Augusta, Georgia.
containing dormitory, class rooms and boarding de
partment. The other two-story frame building used
for kindergarten purposes. The money for these
buildings was given by the Thompson-Bell estate,
Pittsburg. Another building has recently been erect
ed for industrial training, the work being done by the
students under the direction of the industrial teacher.
Miss Laney, in 188 5, attended the meeting of
General Assembly at Minneapolis, where she met
M rs. F. E. If. Haines, First Secretary of the Wo
men’s Board of Home Missions. Each recognizing
in the other a superior Christian woman, they were
mutually attracted, and became fast friends, and up
on her return to Augusta, Miss Laney named her
school the “Haines Normal and Industrial,” in honor
of her friend, Airs. Haines.
In 1894, Aliss Laney secured an able worker in
Aliss Alary C. Jackson, a cultured woman and a* fit
co-laborer with her in the great work which she had
undertaken to do. Together they have, with the aid
of faithful and efficient teachers, brought the school
to its present high standard. Haines has for a num
ber of years felt the need of increased accommoda
tions for both dormitory and class room purposes.
This need has been provided for by a new building
recently finished to he known as “McGregor Hall.”
It consists of twelve commodious class rooms and a
large and convenient Assembly room or chapel'. It
will provide ample class room and chapel accommo
dations for the more than 800 pupils connected with
the school and will allow the former building to be
give n u]) entirely to the home life of the hoarding de
partment. The building was erected at a cost of
about SIB,OOO, and was the gift of Airs. Tracy Alc-
Grcgor of Detroit, Mich.
Twentyeight teachers are employed to do the
work in this institution.