The Hickory Log as a yearbook/annual refers to three different buildings used for Hickory’s high school between 1917 to today. The area’s high school was first named Hickory High School, but was changed to Claremont High School when the school relocated in the early 1920s. The name change brought about a period of skirting, parenthesizing and misuse of the high school name as people continued to refer to the school as Hickory High School. Nearly 50 years later, in 1972, the school was once again relocated. This time, however, the Hickory Board of Education agreed to name the new school Hickory High School. The first school building, located at 432 4th Avenue SW Hickory, NC 28603, opened September 17, 1917. When the school relocated, the remaining building became the Green Park Elementary School before serving as the Hickory City Schools administration building. The second of these buildings, named Claremont Central High School, was located at 243 3rd Avenue NE Hickory, NC 28601. In 1919, the former site of Claremont Female College (which operated from 1880 to 1916) was donated by the Corinth Reformed Church to the city contingent on the construction of a school. The deed was signed for the high school on January 26, 1924; however, it did not open until October 9, 1925 under the name Claremont Central High School. The school remained at this location for 47 years until it was again relocated in 1972. Twelve years after the relocation, the former Claremont Central High School was designated as a local landmark by the City of Hickory and listed on the National Register of Historic Places a year later. In 1972, Hickory High School’s third building opened at 1234 3rd Street NE Hickory, NC 28601 and is still in operation today.