 The first new HHS building was funded out of the savings from the general school fund.After the freeze of 1895, by careful management, money was saved and the first county high school was erected.At a contract price of $5,100 (equivalent to $,000 in 2019), a well-planned, two-story wooden building with science laboratories, a library and an auditorium was built large enough to accommodate as many as 250 high school students.