Odell School is an unrelated community in northwest Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA, named after W. R. Odell Elementary School, part of the Kabarrus County School system. It lies between Huntersville and Concord.
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History
Previous name
The oldest name for this community is the name given to the township, Deweese , in the mid-19th century. This is the surname of one of the land owners in the community, whose name is also given to the community school. The land where the schoolhouse is now is occupied by Gilwood Presbyterian Church.
Other everyday language names for communities coming from behind the turn of the 20th century include Gandersburg and Pinchgut . Gandersburg comes from the sports community where the goose lives in a big tree behind Will Johnson's General Store and the horse rider will try to grab the head from a swan while it is running fast. Pinchgut refers to the difficult times experienced by society during the Reconstruction of the Civil War.
Road
The main road through the community was originally known as Statesville Road , which occupies parts of North Carolina Highway 3, Odell School Road, Bradford Road, Macedonia Church Road and North Carolina Highway 73 on the route between Mooresville and Concord.
In 1929, the state built a paved road, two lanes across the area. The road was originally signed as North Carolina Highway 74. In 1935, Route 74 of the US was built through North Carolina, and the state highway was re-signed as North Carolina Highway 73, more commonly as the Davidson-Concord Highway . With the completion of this highway, the ancient bridge on Statesville Road over Coddle Creek was destroyed, and the lower end of Statesville Road was diverted to a link to Poplar Tent Road and Road Suffering, crossing Highway 73 and formed what is now considered the center of the Odell School community. This street is currently known as Odell School Road.
At the end of the 19th century, the Kannapolis milling village was established north of Cabarrus County, and an extended road from Baker's Creek in the village to join Statesville Road west of Coddle Creek. This path is known for many years as Mooresville Road, then the Mooresville-Kannapolis Highway. It is now a major part of Dale Earnhardt Boulevard, or North Carolina Highway 3.
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Church
Gilwood Presbyterian Church
The establishment of this church took place in November 1889 at the Deweese Schoolhouse property donated to the church by Isaiah Deweese . The first shelter was founded in the 1890s, and a communion building, The Hut was built in the 1920s. The sanctuary was expanded by adding Sunday School rooms and made of rejuvenated bricks in the 1930s.
In the mid-20th century, plans were being made for the reconstruction of church facilities. The educational wing was built in 1963. This was followed by a new sanctuary, connected with the educational wings, in 1969. The former sanctuary was destroyed shortly thereafter. A vast communion hall and service center was built, replacing "The Hut" in the 1990s. The latest project, renovation and expansion of the church sanctuary, was completed in 2004.
Established as a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or the South Presbyterian denomination, the merger of the 1980s brought it into the folding Presbyterian Church (USA).
Shiloh United Methodist Church
This church was founded in the late 19th century as a church of the Methodist, South Episcopal Church. Through the merger process, the congregation is now part of United Methodist Church.
The original sanctuary was built at the Odell School Road right at the south of Shiloh Church Road, and is a skeleton structure, equipped with open towers and three bells. Regardless of its name, this church has never been located on the Shiloh Church road, but rather southward of it.
In the 1930s, the sanctuary was renovated and the tower was closed for a more traditional design. An educational wing and fellowship room was built in the 1960s, and the refuge was replaced with brick structures in the 1990s.
The original sanctuary building still exists, has been moved to a site on Shiloh Church Road and converted into a private residence.
Odell Baptist Church
Founded as a church of the daughter of the First Baptist Concord Church, the Pastorium (priest) and the original sanctuary of the church was built in the early 1960s. Another building for the church was built later in the 20th century, with the original building converted into an educational center and a Pastorium converted into a church office.
The church is located east of the Coddle Creek Reservoir on North Carolina Highway 73. The Odell Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist Convention building church.
Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church
This church congregation began after the Civil War, when members of the Presbyterian Church of Poplar Church in African-Americans decided to form their own congregation. Their original sanctuary is a frame structure constructed from Odell School Road .
This building served the congregation for almost a century, replaced by a brick structure in the late 1960s. For much of its history, Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church has shared a minister with the Bethpage Presbyterian church, Concord .
Founded as a United Presbyterian Church congregation in the US, the denominational incorporation has brought them into folding Presbyterian Church (USA).
School
Deweese/Gilwood School
The establishment of Gilwood Presbyterian Church in 1889 led to the redeployment of the community schoolhouse to Gilwood School and relocation to a building behind the former Will Johnson General Store at the corner of Statesville Road and Mason Goodman Road (now called Windy Road).
Odell SMA
In 1929, W. R. Odell School was built at the corner of a land formed by a newly diverted highway. The school was named for the founder of Odell Mill, the first textile factory in Cabarrus County. The community school of Odell School consolidated in Gilwood, Bethpage, Poplar Tent, and Macedonia, and initially offered eleven grades of teaching in one location. The school was expanded to twelve levels in the 1940s, and remained the only community school and the name until school consolidation began at the end of the 20th century.
Consolidation of new areas and facilities
Grades 9 through 12 were transferred to Northwest Cabarrus High School in 1966, and grades 6 through 8 to Northwest Cabarrus Middle School in 1988. The substitute school at Moss Farm Road (off Harris Road) was built, and the Park childhood and elementary classes starting from the 2007-2008 school year at the new facility. School Administration Kabarrus County has set up an advanced learning center in the original Odell School section, but plans have been made to sell facilities and land, and it may be used for commercial development in the near future. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, high school students in grades 9, 10 and 11 begin attending the newly built Cox Mill School, located on the south bank of the Odell School community. Grade 12 continued to attend Northwest Cabarrus High School to graduate in 2010, and in the fall of 2010 Cox Mill expanded to a full four-year high school.
Odell Fire Fighter Volunteers
Held in 1961, the department's "departmental hearing" came on a winter night in 1963, when the Odell high school gym was burned. Although the fitness center is a total loss, the department was able to save the adjoining school building from destruction.
The Odell Volunteer Fire Department is housed in a modern facility on Highway 73, and has been expanded to provide First Responder services for the area. Most firefighters are trained as Emergency Medical Technicians. The Department serves as a backup and assistance to the Concord Fire Department (NC) for emergency calls to Concord Regional Airport.
In 2010, Odell Volunteer Fire Department built its first substation, a five-bay facility on Shiloh Church Road. The station was designed to function as a stand-alone fire extinguisher, in anticipation of future annexations in the region by Concord, Kannapolis, and/or Davidson.
Nightingale Nursing Hospital
This nursing facility was founded in the early 1960s by Mrs. Bertha Hartsell and Mrs. Florence Furr, neighbors and residents of the Odell School Community. Originally a Medium Care Facility, in the 1970s the facility has been upgraded to the status of a Maintenance Care Facility.
In the late 70s, the sale of the facility resulted in a name change to Brian Center-Odell, although the facility remained privately owned by one of the officers of Brian Center Corporation. The later split with the company resulted in a name change to the Odell Nursing Center .
A major expansion in the 1980s doubled the number of beds at the facility, and was followed by sales in 1990 to Kentucky-based Cardinal Health Care. In 1995, Cardinal built a new facility near Kannapolis, North Carolina, and moved the nursing services of the Odell School community.
The building currently serves as a retirement/assisted living facility.
Community store
Johnson General Store
Johnson General Store is owned and operated by several generations of the Johnson family, beginning in the mid-19th century, and located at the intersection of Odell School Road and Windy Road today. It has long been recognized as a community gathering place, and when the car began to be owned by citizens, it became the supplier of Standard Oil, Esso and finally Exxon gasoline and petroleum products.
Through the early part of the 20th century, William Johnson owned the store. His son Thomas Johnson assumed ownership in the late 1950s until the store closed in 1978, The building is still standing, and is currently used as a residence.
Odell Grocery history
Closer to the Odell School community center, the Hartsell Shop was established in 1920 near the corner of Odell School Road and Lockwood Road today. When Highway 73 was channeled through the community, the Hartsell family moved the store to a corner of the highway opposite the Odell School. There, they turn it into a full-service gas station.
In the mid-1950s, Hartsell's family sold service stations to W. A. ​​Irvin, and as the Irvin Service Station, he served motorcyclists who had been passing through the community for over 30 years. Irvin retired and after hiring his shop for several years, he sold it to Carl Overcash, another resident of the old Odell School community, and his name changed to Carl's General Store. Following the death of owner Ronald Overcash in 2010, the store was sold and known as Odell Grocery. Over the years, the workshop has sold oil and gas from Gulf Oil, Union 76 and Phillips 66 and currently sells Marathon brand fuel.
Tulin exchange phone
The Odell community once owned a phone of its own, independent of the Bell System. The system is operated by the Johnson Family, who run it from their boarding house in what is now called the Odell School Street. This system was built in the years after World War I of the excess electrical appliances and telephone poles harvested from the ground in the community. At its peak, about 50 families and 5 businesses were on the exchange, which took the name "company" from nicknames Ny. Johnson, who serves as an operator.
The "Tulin" exchange serves to connect the distant farm family of the day, and connect them with medical, law enforcement and other important services in the community. One phone line remotely... to the county seat of Concord (NC)... available for exchange. The individual phone numbers are identified by exchange name, followed by the number of "long" rings followed by the number of "short" rings. For example, someone with a "Tulin 24" phone number will know that they have a call when the phone rings with two long rings and four short ones.
The telephone service on the "Tulin" exchange ended in 1942, when channels were lowered and telephones were thrown to rescue metals to aid World War II battles. Over the next decade, phone service to the Odell School community was limited to two lines to Concord... one at Odell High School and the other at Johnson's General Store. In 1952, the Concord Telephone Company began connecting communities to Concord and Kannapolis with a rotating telephone service.
Current problem
Lately there is a big push to incorporate communities. In a movement known as BLOCK (Land Use Better for Odell, Cabarrus, and Kannapolis), citizens have encouraged the merger to stop the last attempt by the city of Kannapolis to annex the area and use it as an extension to their tax base.
Location
The Cabarrus County Chair of Concord is located about 11 miles east of Odell School. To the west lies the towns of North Mecklenburg, Huntersville and Davidson, which is on the eastern edge of Lake Norman. This community consists of volunteer firefighters, gas stations, elementary schools, and 1,100 dwellings.
References
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