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two small Day Schools for the Freedmen. The whites here seem to feel friendly towards their former slaves.

At Catawba Station there is a School for Freedmen taught by A. B. Smyer, a freedman, which numbers fifty pupils. It was opened August 1st 1867. Mr. Smyer charges seventy-five cents per month. Many are unable to pay this sum but he excludes none. There is a Sabbath School, too, here which numbers fifty scholars. These Schools are taught in a small frame building, belonging to Mr O. Lee, a white man, who is very friendly to the Freedmen, and who charges them nothing for this house. The Freedmen have bought already of Mr George Wilkey two acres of land upon which to build a School-house and Church for themselves. They are poor and need help in this work very much. So far their Schools have not been reported to Supt. Fiske and nothing has been done for them.