Excerpt from The Maple Trail, 1942 The Baptists of the Russell Creek Association for a number of years prior to the erection of the buildings of the Russell Creek Academy, realized that they needed to give their children something a state could not give a Christian education. They 'wanted a school where the Bible would be taught daily. This sentiment became so great that in 1900 at the.hssociation at Salem, a committee was appointed to raise funds to build a school, but nothing was accomplished until 1906 when the work was begun on the first building. The first school began in September 1907, With Professor N. G. Welbourn as Principal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.