Beauregard High School

Beauregard High School

Education; Lee County, AL; Beauregard High School; Beauregard, AL; Beauregard, Pierre G.T.; Private Academies; Whatley School; Thompson School; Hopewell School; Hinson School; Parker's Crossroads School; Dorsey School; Sanford High School

In 1923, several rural one-room schools (including Whatley, Thompson, Hopewell, Hinson, Parker’s Crossroads, and Dorsey schools) in the vicinity of present-day Beauregard, AL consolidated to form the Whatley School. The school at Parker’s Crossroads was established in 1907 and occupied the current site of Providence Baptist Church on Lee County Road 166. In August 1928, the school was renamed in honor of CSA General P.G.T. Beauregard. The remodeled school still stands on Alabama Highway 51 approximately seven miles south of Opelika. After sixteen years of delaying with compliance to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Beauregard High School finally integrated with nearby Sanford High School. The former black high school now functions as Sanford Junior High School, Beauregard’s community middle school.

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Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauregard_High_School

Text Sources: Alexander Nunn, Lee County and Her Forebears (Montgomery, AL: Herff Jones, 1983), 110-111.

The Heritage of Lee County Book Committee, The Heritage of Lee County, Alabama (Clanton, AL: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000) 37-38.

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

2014-11-26

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