History
The school was established in 1939 in a black neighborhood as a school for black children. Mrs. Louise Archer served as the school's principal and taught the students with two other teachers. She taught and fed all of the black students. In the early 1940s, the only water was from the Salisbury Spring a mile away. Boys had to go and fetch water, and Mrs. Archer fed the children from a pot-bellied stove. The old school building is what is now part of the northern section of the school near the cafeteria. In 1948, Mrs. Louise Archer died of a heart attack and the school was named in her honor.
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