Craven County Common Schools

The Board of Superintendents are pressing that there is a need for advancing in education and talk of the budget being "unusually low" to do this.(1) This document is proof of the need for a higher budget to keep education booming at this particular period. The final paragraph states that there are certain withdraws to take out of the account of the Chairman given financial rules set in place. If there is a need of more money to be taken out than the given amount then there will have to be multiple withdraws. The paragraph shows the amounts needed as well as how and when these amounts are needed. (1)

1) Lane, John T. and Craven County. Board of Education, “Common Schools in Craven County (1847),” Craven County Digital History, accessed July 24, 2025, https://kellenberger.mycprl.org/digital/items/show/746.

This document for the Craven County Common Schools states the Board would give a budget for the upcoming year of 1851. Listed within this document is a list of rules for the Board to abide by, a report for the list of books students must have on hand including the "Webster's Dictionary", and a list of licensed educators that are employed by the Common Schools of Craven County. (1) 

1) Lane, John T. and Craven County. Board of Education, “Common Schools in Craven County (1851),” Craven County Digital History, accessed July 24, 2025, https://kellenberger.mycprl.org/digital/items/show/748.

The 1858 Craven County School Census lists the names of the children attending District Number Sixteen that year. The Census shows to be coed because the boys are listed on the left and the girls are listed on the right. The committee putting this list together contains Bryan Whitford, Michael Arthur, and Wilie Jones. These names may show up once or twice on the online collection.(1) Written at the beginning of the document, an Act was passed in 1854 stated that all institutions should list and assign a number to both faculty and students attending an institution. With that statement, legally all children are to be accounted for when enrolled.(2) 

1) Whitford, Bryan, Arthur, Michael, Jones, Wilie, “1858 Craven County School Census,” Craven County Digital History, accessed August 18, 2025, https://kellenberger.mycprl.org/digital/items/show/1108.

2) Moore, B.F., Rodman, Will B., Biggs, Asa. "Revised code of North Carolina : enacted by the General assembly at the session of 1854". Little, Brown: 1855. PPS. 328-355. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/revised-code-of-north-carolina-enacted-by-the-general-assembly-at-the-session-of-1854-together-with-other-acts-of-a-public-and-general-nature-passed-at-the-same-session-the-constitution-of-the-state-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-etc.-etc./2691253?item=2833837