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New beginning for Birmingham's Tuggle Elementary marked with groundbreaking (with slideshow and video)
Published: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 7:22 PM Updated: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 8:33 PM
"It's exciting," said 90-year-old Mattie Scott, who is believed to be the oldest living former student and faculty member from the old school.
A groundbreaking ceremony, which included Birmingham school administrators and elected officials, was held at Old Sardis Baptist Church. After the ceremony, Scott and many former students and teachers walked across the road to the site where the old school is being demolished to symbolically turn some dirt for the beginning of the construction project.
Students at Tuggle began attending Brunetta C. Hill Elementary School this year. Once the new school is completed in 2012, all the students will transfer over to the new Tuggle Elementary. The project is part of a program to close and consolidate schools in Birmingham.
"It means a commitment that all facilities are high quality for teaching and learning in the 21st Century and carry on the legacy of Carrie Tuggle at the same time," Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Craig Witherspoon said.
Tuggle school has its beginning from a welfare worker, Carrie A. Tuggle, who opened the Tuggle Institute, an orphanage for young black people in the Enon Ridge community of Birmingham. When she died in 1924 she was buried on the campus.
Tuggle's grave will continue to remain within a small fenced area at the new school.
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