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ST. PHILIP’S PAROCHIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL., St. Philip’s Academy, St. Philip’s Sewing School. Address – 409 S. Lawrence Street These three schools figured prominently in the history of St. Philip’s Church. Young women were trained in a sewing school started by Mrs. William Craighill from Zion Episcopal Church in 1875. In 1900, St. Philip’s Parochial and Industrial School was started in the Parish Hall under the leadership of St. Philip’s Church minister and principal Rev. John Deaver, and teachers Mrs. Sarah D. Tolbert and Mrs. J. N. Deaver. The church newsletter was printed by the school. The St. Philip’s Day School (or Academy, as it was sometimes called) was organized in the 1920s and the 1930s by Rev. Joseph H. Hudson and paid teachers Miss Nethersole Ross and Miss Marion Ridgley. Subjects included reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, and printing. Weekly tuition fees of $.25 to $.45 financed the school. The school was closed as a result of the Great Depression. St. Philip’s also served as an emergency hospital for African Americans during the 1918 Influenza epidemic. Hundreds of blacks and whites died from the highly contagious virus disease.