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County to transfer historic school volumes to Wilson County archives for preservation
Summary
Commissioners heard a presentation on 57 volumes of early-20th-century school records and agreed to transfer the ledgers from the judge’s conference room to the Wilson County archives and to pursue preservation measures including a fireproof cabinet and grant-funded work.
Presenters told the court that Wilson County maintains roughly 57 volumes of historic school records dating from the early 1900s through the 1950s in plastic containers stored in the judge’s conference room. The records include school-board minutes and lists of former 'colored schools' from 1903 and other material local historians identify as valuable for genealogical and local-history research. The presenters — who included a representative accompanying…
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