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From Campus Courtship to Enduring Legacy: Vannie and Mays Barnett
Love stories have been part of North Greenville’s history since its earliest days, when the school was still a small Baptist high school tucked into the foothills of South Carolina. Students met, courted, and sometimes pledged their futures beneath the campus trees or on the wooden swings scattered across the grounds. Among the first of… Read more
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Thomas Lawton Neely: North Greenville’s Second President
Thomas “Tom” Lawton Neely was born on September 11, 1915, in Greenville, South Carolina, to parents Kreswell Edward Neely and Mamie Willingham Lawton Neely. His father was a businessman who ran Neely Lumber Company in Greenville before relocating the business to Spartanburg when Tom was eight years old. Tom was the oldest of nine children… Read more
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Vetville
North Greenville has a long history of helping students receive an education who normally would not have had the opportunity for one. In fact, North Greenville was founded as a high school in 1892 because there were no high schools in the upper part of Greenville County. Later, students would be given reduced or free… Read more
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Leslie Augustus Jones: North Greenville’s Sixth Principal
Leslie Augustus Jones was born on July 21, 1879, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina to parents James Alfred Jones and Cornelia Wannamaker Jones. Leslie was the oldest of about six children and his father was a farmer and a postmaster. The family moved to Salley, SC when Leslie was a kid and he attended the… Read more
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William Fletcher Scott: Lifelong Educator and North Greenville’s 5th Principal
William Fletcher Scott was born on September 30, 1876, in Fairfield County, South Carolina to parents John Austin Scott and Arabella Holmes Scott. The Scotts were a very well-educated family. John Austin Scott was a medical doctor, and Arabella was the daughter of a medical doctor. William was their oldest son, and they named him… Read more
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Silas Franklin Boyles: North Greenville’s 4th Principal
Silas Franklin “Frank” Boyles was born on April 4, 1869, in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina to parents John Henry Boyles and Sarah Needham Boyles. The Boyles family were farmers, and Frank was near the middle of nine kids. He attended Wake Forest College but did not graduate. He also managed a baseball team for a… Read more
From These Roots 