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Willets School, Willets, N.C.

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  • The Willets school house at the Willets community in Jackson County, N.C., exemplified the many small schools that operated throughout the county. For a quarter of a century, S. Jerome Phillips (1880- 1965) taught at the Willets Graded School and became its principal. A report for the 1919 - 1920 school year listed Phillips as the principal, along with three teachers, G.C. Cooper, Bessie Bishop, and Cassia Wallace.