Editing Welch, West Virginia (section)

==Education==
Welch High School was in Welch, West Virginia in a 3-story building.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7TpCAAAQBAJ&dq=welch+high+school+west+virginia&pg=PA477|title=The WPA Guide to West Virginia: The Mountain State|first=Federal Writers'|last=Project|date=October 31, 2013|publisher=Trinity University Press|isbn=9781595342461|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Ernest C. S. Holmboe]]'s firm designed the 1906 high school building. In 1938, [[Hassel T. Hicks]] designed the school's gymnasium. The complex is on a hillside and was built with brown brick.<ref name=sah>{{Cite web|url=https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-MD17|title=Welch High School and Grade School|date=August 1, 2018|website=SAH ARCHIPEDIA}}</ref> The Browns Creek District High School at the school site has a Temple-of-the-Winds Corinthian portico with entablature reliefs.<ref name=sah/> 

Maroon Wave was the school's mascot. [[Scotty Hamilton]] was a basketball coach at the school. A barrel trophy was awarded to the winner in the annual Gary High School and Welch High School football game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.register-herald.com/sports/former-state-champs-honored-in-mcdowell-county/article_50a4a7cc-104b-5115-bce0-90583578f36e.html|title=Former state champs honored in McDowell County|first=Gary Dove For The|last=Register-Herald|website=Beckley Register-Herald}}</ref>

The football team won a 1928 Southern Interscholastic Athletic Association championship.<ref>Team photograph via [https://www.ebay.com/itm/352133320227]</ref> The school was white only until integration in 1957,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theclio.com/entry/16636|title=Integration Protests at Welch High School|website=Clio}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh54-5.html|title=Segregation and Integration in McDowell County|website=archive.wvculture.org}}</ref> In 1963 the football team went undefeated. Tony Colobro was its coach.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bdtonline.com/sports/local_sports/undefeated-1963-welch-maroons-to-be-inducted-into-mcdowell-county-shrine/article_80e1b2eb-ffa2-5435-b60a-422578bc7874.html|title=Undefeated 1963 Welch Maroons to be inducted into McDowell County shrine|first=GARY DOVEBluefield Daily|last=Telegraph|website=Bluefield Daily Telegraph}}</ref>