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and fifty pupils in all.
Several other towns, as Woodstock and Waynesboro are greatly in need of schools, and would have them if buildings were purposed for them.
In these schools we have a good number who by a little expert training might become competent teachers. We are already beginning to feel the need of a normal school where the more advanced pupils may go and be properly classified and instructed. I have in my district one teacher sent by the National Freedman's Ass., one by the A.M.A. four by the Old School Presbyterians, and twenty by The Baptist Home Mission Society. One or two colored persons are also teaching in the district about fifteen hundred persons in all are daily receiving instruction in this valley.
Very Respty,
N.C. Brackett
Sup't. Schools Special Dis.