TITLE:
Mont Amoena Song/Poem, 1922

SUBJECT:
Document

DESCRIPTION:
Handwritten in pencil on lined paper.

CREATOR:
Unknown

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
1922

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT:
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION:
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

TRANSCRIPTION:

Looking backward o’er the pathway
Trod in earlier days,
Hand in hand with you, our comrades,
We’ve come now to parting ways.

Shall we leave you but a mem’ry?
Nay!Our ideals, too!
Golden milestones we’ve erected,
They’re all be far guides to you.

One’s for brave and earnest effort,
One’s for lives that give,
One’s for love and reverence’s footstool,
One’s for hearts that live.

One’s for hope, and one’s for friendship,
One’s for thoughtfulness,
One’s for love of home and country,
One’s for God and His goodness.

We’re not afraid to leave behind us
These our mem’ries bright,
Our successes and failures
May but help you toward the light.

Mont Amoena! Thou whose spirit
Hovers o’er us here!
Be our guide, our inspiration,
Be for all time near.

Keep ambition always burning,
May we faithful be,
Ever true our hearts we’re turning,
Mont Amoena! Unto thee!

Mont Amoena Charter, April 2, 1859. 

TRANSCRIPTION:
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING:
Whereas, D H Bittle, J. C. McEachern, Paul Miller, John S. Henderson, M. Widenhouse, Moses Barrier, John A. Troutman, and M. H. Carter

have associated themselves together under ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT now on file in the Office of the Secretary of the State, acknowledged before the Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Cabarrus County, on the 29th day of March, 1859, and have applied to be incorporated for the purpose of forming a Literary Institution for the promotion of education under the corporate style of “The Montamoena Female Seminary” to pursue the business of a high school to encourage education at Mount Pleasant in the County of Cabarrus, for the term of Thirty years.

Now Therefore, In pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, ratified on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled ” An Act to incorporate Literary Institutions and Benevolent and Charitable Societies,” We do by these presents declare the before-mentioned persons and their successors a Corporation, according to the terms prescribed in said ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, under the name and corporate style of “The Montamoena Female Seminary” to carry on the business of a high school to promote & encourage education, at Mount Pleasant, in the County of Cabarrus, for the term of Thirty years from the date hereof: to have all the rights, privileges, powers and immunities conferred by the before recited Act of the General Assembly, and to be subject to all the limitations, liabilities and restrictions imposed by said Act.

In Witness Whereof, His Excellency John W. Ellis, our Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, hath signed with his hand these presents, and caused our Great Seal of the State of North Carolina to be affixed thereto.

Done at our City of Raleigh, on the 2nd day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine, and in the eighty third year of our Independence.

BY THE GOVERNOR: John W. Ellis
Graham Daves Private Secretary.