A section of page 1 of Colonel Aubrey H. Camden's "Fifty Years of Christian Education in a Baptist School: A Historical Record of Hargrave Military Academy" reads: "In 1906, a young graduate of Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina, Mr. Charles R. Warren, learned of the dire educational needs in the vicinity of Chatham.
He came to Chatham, accepted the Challenge, organized and operated a day school in which he had about twenty boys.
The Simms' house, presently located at the extreme end of Merchant Street, was used as a school building.
At the close of the third session in May, 1909, it was announced that insufficient funds would not permit the school to reopen in September."
These three men joined with Charles R. Warren and together went on to found the Chatham Training School in 1909, which is better known by the name it adopted in 1925: Hargrave Military Academy.