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<blockquote>"I went to school at Northside. My parents wouldn't allow me to walk to school the first two years ...I was kind of ticked because I wanted to walk...They allowed me to walk to school in third grade. So that was cool, like a half hour walk from my house...all these roads here then were dirt roads. None of this was paved."</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><cite>- Clayton Weaver</cite></p>

Opened in August of 2013, Northside Elementary School occupies the same land that housed the all-African-American Orange County Training School from 1924- 1948 when it became Lincoln High School. In 1951 when a new high school building was constructed, the school became Northside Elementary. It remained a segregated school for Black students until integration in 1966 when the school closed. It was used as office space until the building was demolished for the construction of the current Northside Elementary School.

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