The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13
Ar BU|E'S CREEK|ENy|ABLE HISTORY
Rev. J. A. Campbell Has
Built Up Notable
School There.

In January, 1887, Rev. J. a. Camp
bell, leaving Wake Forest College be-
fore graduation, established in the
neighborhood in which he had been
raised a school for the education of
the children of Harnett county. The
school steadily grew in popularity and
usefulness. the building was enlarged
from time to time until when the fire
came in 1898 Buie's Creek Academy
could accommodate three hum
dred students. The fire swept
away in the night the visi-
BILE results of eleven years of nota-
BILE work. Then there came splendid
offers to Mr.. Campbell to go to several
growing towns and establish his
school. The temptation was great and
many men would have accepted one
Of these hattering offers. But he never
dreamed of doing anything, but build
ing up the ashes where he had won his
success, far from any railroad or any
town. The people of his neighborhood
helped as they could generous men i'll
other sections gave money and lum-
Der; and with faith he went to work
to rebuild upon a larger scale the
handsome brick structure that is q
credit to the county and the state. 1t
is the building shown in this article
and will cost when fully furnished,
something like $4,000. During the
session that closed in June, the total
enrolment of students was 504 And
the man who has wrought that work
in a remote rural section of Harnett,
where everybody was poor when he
began. had to borrow money to go to
college, and left before he graduated
because he did not wish to incur SO
heavy debt and he felt the call to
the work. He is a prophet who Is
honOred in mis- own country.
New railroads have been built and
now Buie's Creek Academy is only
four miles from two railroad depots
Goats, on the Cape Fear and North
ern, and Ellington, on the Raleigh q
Southport. The faculty has been
steadily increased. At the opening SEES
sion there were only two teachers, Mr..
Campbell and Miss Pearson. who af~
forwards became Mrs. Campbell, and
who has been "help-meet" in the
conduct of the school as well as in the
home. Now the faculty embraces thir-
teen. The course has been broaden
ed. Students are given either q
thorough business course. or prepared
for college, university or for business
The simple life there is without any
talk about it. Board in families, in
GLIDING washing lights and furnished
Tuition is from $1.00 to $500. 1t is i
healthy and moral community, where
religion and industry reign.
ITO see a school four miles away
from railroads in a thinly settled COM
munity grow into such proportions as
yours is an inspiration and hope,
wrote Governor Aycock shortly before
he retired from the office of Chiel
Executive.
Rev. d. Charles w. Boyd, of Au-
gusta. Ga, the ablest Methodist
preacher North Carolina has produced
in years Eas born in the neighbor-
hood in which Buie's Creek is located.
Not long ago he revisited his old
home and wrote thus to Prof. Camp.
bell:
my recent visit to your school was
gratifying in the extreme. | have
nowhere seen evidences of more
thorough work in the educational
line. Your school has absolutely
transformed the community in which
il is located, besides sending out its
beneficient influences to every part Of
the State. 1 trust that you may be
able to do a yet larger work when
your new building shall have been
completed. The people Of your sec
ton will surely continue to sustain an
institution that is doing the splendid
work that Buie's Creek Academy is
doing. | >~all always reJolce in the
prosperity of your school.