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Williams Grove School

historic one-room school located at Angier, Harnett County, North Carolina

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ22061140 ↗
Source-derived summary

Williams Grove School is a historic one-room school located at Angier, Harnett County, North Carolina. It was built in 1892, and is a one-room frame front gable building. It measures 30 feet, 4 inches long, by 22 feet, 4 inches wide. It was moved to its present site in 1975 and subsequently restored as a museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Williams Grove School” as historic one-room school located at Angier, Harnett County, North Carolina. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1975, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892. The account is most persuasive where Williams, Grove and School can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as historic one-room school located at Angier, Harnett County, North Carolina. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22061140. Authority coordinates are 35.508, -78.735. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1975 and 1995.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Williams Grove School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Williams Grove School primary sources, Williams Grove School archive and Williams research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Williams Grove School”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Williams Grove School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.