Miss Emma Lehman…heart of the Academy…

Sketch of Bethania by Miss Emma Lehman shows, left to right, the 1807 church, the 1770 Geminhaus (later removed to make way for the parsonage), and the first house in Bethania (1759) built by Gottfried Grabs. Emma Augusta Lehman was born in 1841 in Bethania, NC to Eugene C. and Amanda Sophia Butner Lehman. Her…

The Consolidation Club…

100 years ago, the young women of Salem Academy & College helped celebrate the joining of the cities of Salem and Winston. Seven young Winston women, left, seven young Salem women, right, and Mary Pell, not from Salem or Winston, as the hyphen. Clever girls! They also apparently had some backward seniors. Images from digitalnc.org…