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This postcard mailed in 1951, shows how Huntington East High
and the
Huntington Trades School looked in 1940's.
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HUNTINGTON -- Huntington High School, built on 8th Street on the city's South
Side in 1916,
served the community well for many years. But by the 1930s, it was
clear that a growing
city had more youngsters than could be accommodated at one
high school.
Soon pupils at the badly overcrowded Huntington High were attending school in
shifts, with half the
student body going to classes in the morning and the other
half in the afternoon. Planning for a new
school began and the result was
Huntington East High, built at 5th Avenue and 29th Street in 1939.
For more than a half century, from 1939 to 1996, the Huntington High "Pony
Express"
and the Huntington East "Highlanders" were cross-town rivals in many
aspects of
student life but especially on the football field.
In 1996, the two schools were consolidated, a move prompted by a need for
modern up-to-date facilities.
After the consolidation, the Cabell County Board
of Education moved its offices to the former Huntington East.
(The former
Huntington High became a multi-use community center.)
The Huntington Trades School was also built in 1939, just west of Huntington East building.
The vocational education program in Cabell County began in 1929 with two
classes in automobile mechanics
at Huntington High. Two years later, the program
moved to a location at 8th Street and 8th Avenue. In 1933,
the program was moved
again, this time to a building at 8th Avenue and 6th Street.
With construction of the Trades School, courses were offered in the
construction, electrical and metal trades,
as well as auto mechanics. The
school's course offerings were expanded a number of times over the years until
1982, when the new Cabell County Career Technology Center was constructed on
Norway Avenue.
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Note: This Article and picture appeared in the Herald-Dispatch Newspaper on Sep. 07 , 2015
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