Comments on: Gibsonville High School — Gibsonville, North Carolina

By: DaveSanders

DaveSanders — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:12:32 +0000

It seems that Gibsonville School is on death row: School System Plans to Demolish Old Gibsonville School.

By: DaveSanders

DaveSanders — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:59:01 +0000

Excellent question, Bill, and, to my surprise, I have an answer.
An Act was passed in the 1897 session of the General Assembly of North Carolina, to wit: “That the part of Alamance county lying within the corporate limits of Gibsonville, North Carolina, shall be and is hereby made a part of the school district of the town of Gibsonville.”

By: Bill Ahrens

Bill Ahrens — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:51:19 +0000

Did Gibsonville draw kids from Alamance county too? How would that happen since that’s 2 different school system?

By: DaveSanders

DaveSanders — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:04:49 +0000

Thanks for the info, Richard.
For anyone who’s interested, here’s the address for the historical society on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gibsonville-Museum-Historical-Society/107686072633321

By: Richard Kleeberg

Richard Kleeberg — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:44:30 +0000

The Gibsonville School(a brick 3 story building (located on the corners of Church and Joyner Streets
was built about 1923) and replaced a wooden school called The Green School(located on the site of the current Gibsonville Elementry and the old School Cafeteria) The green school burned a year after the brick structure was built. Photographs of these schools can be viewed in the Gibsonville Museum and Historical Societys’ Exibit located at 119 East Main ST. Gibsonville. The museum does not have regular hours ,but is open during major events such as the annual fall festival check out their FACEBOOK PAGE for more info. Prior to the green school students learned their 3 R’s in the yellow school.(named because of the color painted.Early classes were also held in the Old Masonic Lodge located on W. Main street. The Colored School you refer to had a little over 300 students in the early 1920s while the Gibsonville School served about twice as many students. The exact address of this school is unknown to me but I have been told the location was close to where you described. hope this info is useful.

By: DaveSanders

DaveSanders — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:17:14 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing your memories of Gibsonville High School.

By: Eva Tickle Allen

Eva Tickle Allen — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:02:27 +0000

I forgot to mention that my husband was a 1962 graduate of Bessemer High School in Greensboro, NC

By: Eva Tickle Allen

Eva Tickle Allen — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:00:58 +0000

I am a 1965 graduate of GHS. My father, Henry Tickle was a 1931 graduate of GHS. I not sure when Gibsonville School began but I know that the class of 1924 had the main sidewalk done that went up to the main entrance of the school. I also know that it began as a one room school that was located close to where the new Elementary school was built around the time that Eastern Guilford High School burned. The original High School building is still standing as well as the Home Economics Building and the Gym. When I began school in 1953, the school cafeteria was located in the basement of the main building. A new building was built to house the cafteteria and the 1st and 2nd grades and was opened around 1955. In the 1980′s another building was built and attached to the original building this building along with the cafeteria building was torned down when the new elementary school was built in the 2000′s. As for Eastern Guilford High School, it replaced Gibsonville as our high school and was opened in 1974. No other schools consolidated with us but to have enough students for Eastern, students were pulled from Southeast and Northeast High Schools. When Eastern was built, Gibsonville became an Elementary School for classes K-5 grades, As for the black school and if my memory serves me correctly, there was a school located somewhere off Carmon Road and then there was Sedalia High School that was a black only school until the 1960′s and then it became a Elementary school that was no longer black only and this school was located on Highway 70E and west of Gibsonville. I know that my father would have been able to answer your questions about Gibsonville however he past away in 2007. As for our school colors they were Black and Gold and our mascot was the Yellow Jacket.
Thank you.