Pike County GaArchives News.....Fire Completely Destroys Concord School November 28, 1924 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Cunningham http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002535 March 31, 2011, 5:59 pm The Pike County Journal November 28, 1924 The Concord High School was completely destroyed by fire Thursday night of last week. The fire was discovered about 2 o’clock in the morning and was under such headway that nothing could save the building from total destruction. For a while it seemed that the dormitory would also be burned but, as good luck would have it, the wind was not directly toward it and it was saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. It is said that several pupils and teachers had been in the auditorium up til about 9:30 preparing for an entertainment but when they left there was no fire in the stove in the auditorium, where the fire was first seen. The building was a most creditable school house and was probably easily worth, with its equipment, from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars. Besides the building and equipment, several hundreds dollars worth of books belonging to the children, were destroyed. School was re-opened Monday in temporary quarters. Definite plans for a new building have not yet been formulated but it is safe to say that the Concord pupils will have an even a better building than the old one as soon as it can reasonably be built. If there is any one thing more than another [it is] that the Concord people take pride in their school. They do not hesitate to exert their strongest efforts in making their school the very best possible. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/pike/newspapers/firecomp439nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb