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The Batesburg Institute opened here in 1893. Also called the Batesburg Collegiate Institute, it was created by the merger of the town’s Methodist and Baptist schools, founded in the 1880s. The Institute moved into the Baptist school, a one-story frame building later enlarged with a second story. W.J. Helms, its first principal, served here from 1893 to 1896, when the institute had more than 100 students. Principals from 1896 to 1911 included D.W. Daniel, L.C. Perry, J.R.T. Major, and W.C. Martin. John Broadus Watson, who taught at the Batesburg Institute in 1899-1900, later became a renowned psychologist and a pioneer in behaviorism. The Batesburg Institute burned in 1911 and was replaced in 1912 by the Batesburg Graded and High School, a new brick school on U.S. Highway 1.
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