1900s

Moravian Farm Life School founded

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Bishop J. Kenneth Pfohl establishes the original “Clemmons School,” known as the Moravian Farm Life School, near today’s Clemmons Moravian Church on Spangenberg Ave. Headmaster James F. Brower leads the school until 1925.

1920s

New Clemmons School constructed ($100,000)

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Designed by Northup & O’Brien; built by Boyles Building Co. District expands to include Hanestown, South Fork, and Muddy Creek. Principal J.F. Brower transitions from Moravian Farm Life School. Grades 1–11 taught (state requirement).

Board of Education: J.F. Griffith (Chair), Miller Hinshaw, P. Frank Hanes, Thomas H. Cash (Superintendent). Local Committee: R.H. Hunter, O.M. Clinard, J.W. Swaim. Southern Public Utilities brings power from Idols Plant on the Yadkin.

First in Forsyth accredited for college entrance

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Includes 16 classrooms, 3 domestic science rooms, library, music room, and an 800‑seat auditorium for assemblies and worship. Indoor restrooms, drinking fountains, and steam heat installed. Early desks are bolted to oiled wood floors (practice later ended for fire safety).

School opens; 500 students (grades 1–11)

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Some classes meet in temporary shacks while construction finishes. Science lab and French, Latin, Spanish offered. Sessions run eight months to fit farm schedules. Prof. J.F. Brower and wife Annie serve until 1931.

First basketball team (outdoor courts)

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First baseball team formed

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1930s

Plays & Halloween carnivals; clubs expand

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Key Club, Keyettes, FFA, and FHA become active.

Principal Theodore Rondthaler; orchestra formed

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With his wife Alice, Rondthaler organizes a school orchestra.

Christmas Pageant begins (to 1961)

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Two clay tennis courts built (site of Broyhill Annex today)

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Sports program grows with track, soccer, and tennis.

Girls’ track wins county championship

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First cheerleading team formed

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1940s

Gymnasium built by WPA; basement cannery during WWII

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Funds solicited in 1938; Works Progress Administration completes construction in 1940. Gym basement operates as a community cannery during WWII, managed by Alma “Ma” Hampton with Luther O. Crotts.

School newspaper “The Chatterbox” begins

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First (and only) 11‑man football team; WWII ends program

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Senior play canceled due to gas rationing

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Baseball wins Class C Western State Championship

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12th grade mandated; T. Ray Gibbs becomes Principal

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Reclassified to Class B (Class C eliminated)

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Six‑man football begins; Baseball wins State; “Clemmemories” yearbook debuts

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Football Six‑man State Champs; Baseball repeats; Basketball title briefly held

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Basketball wins Forsyth County Championship but returns the title after two days.

Cafeteria + four classrooms added; shop/ag building constructed

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Shop/ag building north of cafeteria; Luther O. Crotts teaches agriculture/shop through 1956.

Athletic complex completed; first game; Howard St. renamed Stadium Drive

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Community project led by Dennis Brewer (Class of 1928). Cost \$30,000—half by W.N. Reynolds (Tanglewood), \$6,000 county, \$9,000 raised locally (chicken‑pie suppers, donkey baseball). First game: Clemmons Blues vs. Waldo High (FL champs).

Principal G. Linnet Potts; multiple team honors

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Football: Six‑man Class B runner‑up. Basketball: Forsyth County champions. Baseball: third consecutive Class B state title.

1950s

Principal George Lester; school reclassified to Class A

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Robert Chilton becomes Principal

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W. Frank Morgan; last graduating class of Clemmons High

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Commencement hymn “God of Our Fathers.” First graduate (1926): Lena V. Brewer. Last to walk (1956): George Ed Wilson.

Becomes Clemmons Elementary (grades 1–8)

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High school consolidates into the new Southwest Forsyth (with Lewisville & South Fork).

1960s

Grade reconfiguration (Elem 1–6; Southwest JH; West Forsyth HS opens)

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1970s

Elementary changes to grades 1–4

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1980s

Clemmons Elementary closes; “last day” announcement

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Principal Frank Morgan: “We have sort of come to the end of the trail and it’s time to move on.” New Clemmons Elementary opens that fall on Bingham Ave.

Edgar Broyhill purchases building; Edgar B Furniture Plantation opens

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1990s

Renovated as Historic Broyhill Office Suites & Event Center

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Former classrooms become offices and event spaces.

2010s

W. Frank Morgan Elementary named (Harper Road)

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Principals’ plaque dedicated at school entrance

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2020s

Memorabilia cabinet & placards installed (East wing)

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Dedication by Barbara Mahannah (Class of ’56) honoring 31 years as a high school.

Old Clemmons School centennial

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The Historic Broyhill building marks 100 years since the school’s construction in 1925.