PICTURE BURKE PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Mrs. Jeter’s third-grade class poses for a photo at Morganton Primary School in 1935. The school was located at the site of the present-day Burke County Courthouse. On the front row (from left) are unidentified, unidentified, Sam. J. Ervin III, Margaret Carter, Henrietta Wilton, Susan Walker, Daisy Moore, unidentified, Eleanor Huffman, Katie Lee Coburn, Alice Whisnant, Raye Drum, John Collett, and unidentified. On the middle row are Nollie Patton, Margaret Ross, Georgia Haynes, Teresa Duckworth, unidentified, Grace Powell, Dorothy Ann Harbison, Hilda Lane, Bill Denton, Martha Walton, unidentified, and Charles Kistler. On the back row are Betty Jean Foxx, Louise Lane, Ralph Harbison, Floy Buff, Frank Patton, Charles Gordon Tate, Laura Mundy, unidentified, Evelyn Beach, unidentified, Charles Vernon, Jean Drum, and Bill Carter. This image was created by Greene Studio and submitted by the History Museum of Burke County and the N.C. Room (John T. Oxford Jr.’s Walt Greene Collection) to Picture Burke, a digital photograph preservation project of the Burke County Public Library.

PICTURE BURKE PHOTO OF THE WEEK

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