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Residents ask board to transfer historic West Street School to preservation group
Summary
Cleopatra Hardy Lawton, a New Bern resident and alumna of the West Street School, asked the Craven County Board of Education on Sept. 18 to deed the West Street Historic School to the newly formed West Street Society for Historic Preservation.
Cleopatra Hardy Lawton, a New Bern resident and alumna of the West Street School, told the Craven County Board of Education on Sept. 18 that she and a coalition, the West Street Society for Historic Preservation, have submitted a petition asking the board to deed the West Street Historic School property to the society for restoration and preservation. "We formed this coalition of citizens of New Bern who want to save, restore, and preserve our and your first school for freed slaves," Lawton told the board, and she attached historical photographs and a short history to…
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