{"id":13852,"date":"2025-05-16T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:47:13","slug":"family-reunion-creeds-school-turns-85-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/family-reunion-creeds-school-turns-85-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Family reunion: Creeds school turns 85 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CREEDS4.avif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CREEDS4.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a>On June 6, Creeds Elementary will host a family reunion-style 85th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>All are invited, especially people who attended or worked at the school. The event includes a student art exhibit and poetry contest, a presentation from city officials, and historical artifacts including registers and gradebooks dating back to the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration is from 6 to 8 p.m. and features food trucks and barbecue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most special aspects of Creeds is that we have generations of investment from our community,\u201d said principal Casey Conger. \u201cCreeds is not just a school. It\u2019s the hub of the southern end of our city and a core life memory for most of our Pungo, Blackwater and Creeds families.\u00a0 While we aim to honor and celebrate the past, we continuously strive to build upon a tradition of excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Creeds means family, said former principal Robin Davenport. \u201cIt is a home that cares about the children, the families and its staff. Creeds is \u2018Simply the Best!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are some facts about the school from the archives of The Virginian-Pilot and other sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The elementary school traces its history to 1848, when Blossom Hill, a one-room schoolhouse, opened in what was then Princess Anne County about five miles south of the current building.<\/li>\n<li>The current school building was built in 1939 and served as a high school for Princess Anne County until 1954, when it became an elementary school.<\/li>\n<li>The original building was built by the Works Progress Administration as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal.<\/li>\n<li>The Creeds graduating class of 1951 was 13 students. The class of 1943 had 21 students.<\/li>\n<li>There were four principals of the high school from 1939-1954; and as an elementary school, there have been eight principals from 1954 to present.<\/li>\n<li>In 2001, renovations included a larger main office and clinic, a gymnasium, cafeteria and kitchen. A computer lab and several classrooms were updated. A public library was constructed next to the school.<\/li>\n<li>Creeds may be an old school, but it boasted air conditioning. This isn\u2019t necessarily because of the heat, according to former principal James Minter.\u201cWhen the wind was just right, all you could smell was hog farms,\u201d Minter said in a Pilot article in 1985. \u201cIt made it very hard to concentrate when you couldn\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Creeds Elementary is so far south, it&#8217;s closer to the North Carolina border than to Pungo.<\/li>\n<li>Some Creeds students live on Knotts Island, where there is one street that is Virginia property but the state line is underwater. They\u2019re technically Virginia residents, although Knotts Island is part of North Carolina.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13857 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building3.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building2.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building1-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building1-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building1-400x155.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/building1.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-768x1078.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-1095x1536.jpg 1095w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-1459x2048.jpg 1459w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-400x561.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Creeds-School-Reunion-85-scaled.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/44_high-res-proof-1-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, Creeds Elementary will host a family reunion-style 85th anniversary celebration. 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