CrosSnoreSchool.org
About CrosSnoreSchool.org
In 1913 doctors Eustace and Mary Martin Sloop started a school in the poverty entrenched mountains of western North Carolina, because they believed... The Sloops trudged on foot and rode horseback on steep dirt trails in isolated mountain valleys to bring medicine to the people and convince farmers to let their children come to school. Because of poverty and distance, the Sloop school in Crossnore eventually took in boarders then built dormitories to accommodate them.
