Colly District # 41 School
CIRCA 1880
Restored by Eagle Scouts
Ben Tedder
and
Paul Chany
of Elizabethtown Boy Scout Troop 602
May 1992
Girl Scout Troop #600 fenced-in the playground and added an old hand pump for water in fulfillment of their Silver Leadership Award. Later scouter Summer Russell earned her Gold Leadership Award by adding an outhouse to the back of the playground (complete with a half moon). A report to the Bladen County Board of Education dated December 3, 1888, shows that Colly District #41 School was one of the 74 schools in operation, teaching six grades, with an average term of about 10 weeks. In 1914 Colly District #41 (changed to #2) was one of 118 schools in Bladen County. The average term had reached 107 days. This school was originally located off Hwy 701, approximately two miles north of White Lake. It now stands on the Harmony Hall complex; Bladen county Board of Education does not recognize it as an active school; its hours of operation are very limited.