• 1907- Guilford County Board of Education named Jamestown as one of the first two sites for county’s first rural standard high schools.
• 1915-CONSTRUCTION (after first school destroyed by fire)

  COST- $18,117

  ARCHITECT- Charles E. Hartge of Raleigh

  NEOCLASSICAL STYLE (Portico is the dramatic focus of building, with Greek ionic columns)

  CONTRACTORS- A.F. Brooks and William Baker Hunt

  FIRST PRINCIPAL- E. J. Coltrane (later President of Brevard College)

  JAMESTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOL is said to have become the first accredited rural high school in North Carolina

• 1926 Auditorium and classroom addition
• 1930’s Annex addition

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