The Story of the "Bell" at Dorchester Academy

Dorchester Academy

The Midway Congregational Church bell played a very important role in the lives of Dorchester Academy students. It kept time by ringing with an echo that could be heard seven to ten miles away. The bell rang every day ...

New Life For Dorchester Academy 1932-1940

Dorchester Academy

J. Roosevelt Jenkins, who was Dorchester

Academy's assistant principal, science

teacher and athletic director, replaced

Elizabeth Moore as principal after her death

in 1932. He continued to strengthen the

school's curriculum and the thriving

athletic programs. During his administration,

Dorchester Academy was in its academic

prime. In ...

Athletic Programs at Dorchester Academy 1926-1940

Dorchester Academy

Founding the athletic programs was considered one of Principal Elizabeth Moore's greatest achievements. School teams came to be known as the Dorchester Academy Tigers and Tigerettes, with "Shag" the tiger as their mascot. Dorchester Academy participated in it's first ...

Elizabeth Moore at Dorchester Academy 1925-1932

Dorchester Academy

In 1925, Elizabeth B. Moore began her six-year tenure as Dorchester Academy's only female, African American principal. She insisted that both parents and community accept responsibility for supporting the school. She believed that charity and tuition breaks should be ...

The Growth Of Dorchester Academy 1874 - 1930s

Dorchester Academy

In 1872, African Americans from Liberty County began another letter writing campaign; this time for a teach to replace Eliza Ann Ward. They requested that their next teacher be both a teacher and a minister. In the spring of ...

Dorchester Academy Boy's Dormitory

his Georgian Revival building, built in 1934 to replace an earlier structure destroyed by fire, was once part of an extensive school campus begun in 1871 by the American Missionary Association. The school, founded to serve the educational needs of ...

Dorchester Academy

Formal education of blacks started with the Freedmen's Bureau in Liberty County. The Homestead School was continued with the aid of the American Missionary Association (AMA) and support of Reconstruction legislator William A. Golding. The AMA started with one acre ...