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Peter W. Moore

Built at what is now 606 Roanoke Avenue in 1923 as first consolidated high school for blacks in Pasquotank County. P.W. Moore was first known as Dunbar High School but later was renamed to honor Peter W. Moore (1859-1934), the first principal at State Colored Normal School at Elizabeth City, now Elizabeth City State University. After desegregation in 1970 and the opening of Northeastern High School, P.W. Moore became an elementary / junior high school until it was vacated and eventually demolished in 1988. It's doors reopened August 15, 1990 after reconstruction.

P.W. Moore Construction and Renovation Project Plaque August 15, 1990

P.W. Moore Obelisk Headstone Close up of P.W. Moore's Obelisk Headstone with engraving that reads In Remembrance of Peter Weddrick Moore A.B., A.M., L.L.D 1859-1934

In Loving Remembrance
of
Peter Wreddrick Moore A.B., A.M., L.L.D
1859-1934
He lived for others

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