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Elizabeth City High School — Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Posted by DaveSanders | North Carolina | Posted on December 17th, 2009

Elizabeth City High School, Pasquotank County, NC

Replaced by Northeastern High School in 1969. (Northeastern’s mascot is the Eagle. Its school colors are green and gold. Also replaced P.W. Moore High School and Central High School.)

755 alumni on Classmates.com

Here’s a good History of Elizabeth City schools.

From Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools:
ELIZABETH CITY HIGH SCHOOL
Elizabeth City, public, white. First building erected in 1908 on site of old Atlantic Collegiate Institute on North Road Street. It was replaced in 1923-1924 by a new High School, now the EC Middle School across the street. The old building remained until it was replaced by S.L. Sheep Junior High School in 1940.

From the Pasquotank County page at www.ncgenweb.us:
- “The first known school for Blacks [in North Carolina] was a red schoolhouse located near the corporate limits of Elizabeth City in 1879.. . . The school was called Colored Normal School…”
- “In 1924 Elizabeth City High School was built. In this same year, P.W. Moore was built to be the high school for black students from both the city and the county.”
- “Elizabeth City and Pasquotank County operated as two separate school systems until 1967 when the two units were merged into the present system.”

The History of Elizabeth City-Pasquotank County Schools Since 1945 by Keeley Boyer

On eBay is a 1916 Elizabeth High School yearbook, The Tatler, containing photos of all 11 seniors. Includes a photo of Ned, the collie dog mascot.

A photo of a bus used by the ECHS Band appears to be Black and Gold

From the Elizabeth High School 1950′s and 60′s Alumni site, we find that the mascot was the Yellow Jackets. (Note: This is a GREAT site. Click every link…the links are sometimes small, but the content definitely isn’t.)

1957 – State AA Football Champions

In the 1950′s, the band went to Richmond to play in the Tobacco Bowl parade. I’m guessing there is no more Tobacco Bowl.

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Elizabeth City, NC

For the school colors, we’re going with Black and Gold until somebody tells us otherwise.