This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5UB.2ACI/2678.1 Message Board Post: I'm aware that there was a school for the deaf at Morganton and I have seen information on it (maybe found through a Google search or in one of the Burke Co. heritge volumes). As I recall, it was founded about 1898. According to a cousin, writing me more than 50 years ago, her father went to one there much earlier, so it apparently had a precursor.