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The Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center is a juvenile correctional facility of the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention located in unincorporated Cabarrus County, North Carolina, near Concord.〔"(Youth Development Centers )." North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Retrieved on August 8, 2010. "Contact Information: 1484 Old Charlotte Road Concord, N.C. 28027"〕 The Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School was established by an act of the state legislature in 1907 and opened in 1909 as the first juvenile detention facility in North Carolina. The school was named for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The institution is located three miles (5 km) from Concord. Originally encompassing , the campus is . Walter Thompson was the first principal.〔("Jackson's history dates back to 1909" ), ''The Independent Tribune'', 2006-09-04, Retrieved on 21 Aug 2008〕 Due to the school's pioneering status and the quality of several of its early buildings, the Stonewall Jackson Training School Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ==History== Established to provide a place for troubled youths separate from adult prisoners, this was considered a progressive institution. Its founding was the result of twenty years of organizing by white women's groups in North Carolina. They lobbied for construction of a reformatory for white boys as part of prison reform. Particularly influential were the King's Daughters (North Carolina) from 1902 on, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs (NCFWC) and the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) also participated in campaigning strongly to raise funds and influence the legislature. When the King's Daughters promised to name the school after General Stonewall Jackson, many Confederate veterans in the legislature finally approved the project, which was authorized in 1907. As a sign of their influence, four women were named to the board of the school.〔(Anastasia Sims, ''The Power of Femininity in the New South'' ), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997, pp.119-122〕 Boys were generally incarcerated for relatively minor scrapes with the law, including school truancy. "At the school, the young men lived in a series of dormitory style buildings, and received an academic education as well as learning a trade. Students worked in industries including shoemaking, printing, barbering, textiles, and a machine shop. Many of the young men worked on the school’s farm, learning modern agricultural techniques, and maintaining the fields and cattle herds that supported the school. The print shop produced a small newspaper called ''The Uplift''."〔("Stonewall Jackson Training School" ), North Carolina Historical Marker Program, accessed 8 Jan 2009〕 Both white and African-American women's groups pressed the legislature for similar facilities for white girls, and for African American boys and girls. Such facilities were not constructed for several years: the first, for white girls, was built in 1918 in Moore County and called Samarcand.〔(Anastasia Sims, ''The Power of Femininity in the New South'' ), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2006, pp.119-122〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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