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John Oliver Hicks (1825− ??) was a noted educator when he arrived in Clay County in 1850, at age 25, and began establishing pay schools, also called “subscription schools.” According to Jay Walter Moore, the first of these primitive log cabin schools was built on a site near the old Winchester Baptist Church, just off Tusquittee Road, northeast of today’s Hayesville town center. Mr. Hicks is most well-known for establishing the Hicksville Academy (a subscription school) in 1870, on the site that is now the Hayesville School complex. In 1864 he was elected as the first Representative from Clay County to the North Carolina General Assembly.
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