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Photographer: AGS Media
Taken: December 30, 2011
Caption: Georgetown Marker and the old Hopper Academy
Additional Description: Founded a few blocks away, the "first Georgetown school" mentioned by the marker was also Seminole County's first school for African Americans. Eventually known as Hopper Academy, the school moved to this site where Principal Joseph N. Crooms oversaw construction of this building around 1906. Hopper Academy originally housed elementary, middle and high school students, until a separate African American high school (Crooms Academy) was built in Goldsboro in 1926. Classes continued at Hopper Academy until 1968. The county hopes to restore the building for use as a community center.
Submitted: April 8, 2012, by Glenn Sheffield of Tampa, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p199102
File Size: 4.701 Megabytes

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