Governor Morehead School

It served African-American students from the beginning, in separate facilities under educational segregation in the United States.

[2] In 1966 the U.S. federal authorities were withholding $89,927 aid in Title I funds as the school had not yet desegregated.

[2] The school namesake is John Motley Morehead, former Governor of North Carolina.

[6] The property concerned included a field, unused, with 7.3 acres (3.0 ha) of land total.

In 2014 the City of Raleigh offered to buy the Dorothea Dix property and the Morehead field for $51.26 million.

Cooke Building
Path into Garden between buildings on GMS Campus