a new building has been put up for school and
dormitory purposes.

At Pleasant Hill, Tenn., a large three-story Girls' Hall is in process
of construction to enable the mountain girls to take advantage of this
successful normal school.

At Pine Mountain, Tenn., the church building has been completed and
furnished for school as well as church purposes and a teachers' home
has been built.

At Beaufort, N.C., the large old school building known as Washburn
Seminary, has been placed in the hands of the Association and refitted
and a new normal school started in it. The church building, also, has
received many greatly needed repairs.

At Chapel Hill, N.C., a brick church building, formerly belonging to
the Southern Methodists, has been purchased for a school, and will be
used also for church services.

At Macon, Ga., the Ballard School building has been completed and
furnished at a cost of $14,000, and a Girls' Hall erected at a cost of
$7,500--two more generous gifts of Mr. Stephen Ballard, of Brooklyn.

At Savannah, Ga., extensive repairs have been made on the Beach
Institute building.

At Thomasville, Ga., the school facilities have been increased by
moving a school building in the town, to the Connecticut Industrial
School.

At McIntosh, Ga., land and buildings have been bought for the
enlargement of this historic, successful and intensely interesting
school.

At Woodville, Ga., the church and school building which had been
nearly wrecked, first by the Charleston earthquake and then by a
cyclone, has been made solid and comfortable.

At Byron, Ga., land has been bought and preparations have been made
for a church building.

At Fairbanks, Fla., a school building and lot worth $2,500 have been
given to us by Mrs. Merrill, of Bangor, Me., on condition that we
maintain a school there.

At Marion, Ala., we have refitted a large dwelling for a greatly
needed school building.

At New Decatur, Ala., a new church building is about completed.

At Tougaloo, Miss., the large Girls' Hall, owing to the peculiarities
of the soil--alluvium, 300 feet deep--unknown when it was built, had
been crushing its foundations into the ground until it was on the
point of falling. Our own missionary and student force lifted it up,
put under it new foundations and repaired it in every part. At a cost
of between $4,000 and $5,000, they saved a $15,000 building which
engineers and contractors pronounced a hopeless wreck.

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