Rustburg in Campbell County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Campbell County Training School
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021
1. Campbell County Training School Marker
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Campbell County Training School (CCTS) opened here ca. 1923 after African American citizens campaigned for better schools. The black community, the county, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund paid for its construction. Rosenwald, inspired by the work of Booker T. Washington, helped build more than 5,000 schools for black students. The Rev. Thomas Tweedy and Gabe Hunt are recognized as major local contributors to CCTS, which provided the county's first two-year high school program for African Americans and later included a teacher cottage, cafeteria, shop, and auditorium. In 1951 a new CCTS opened nearby. Named Campbell County High School in 1952, it closed in 1969 when desegregation was completed.
Campbell County Training School (CCTS) opened here ca. 1923 after African American citizens campaigned for better schools. The black community, the county, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund paid for its construction. Rosenwald, inspired by the work of Booker T. Washington, helped build more than 5,000 schools for black students. The Rev. Thomas Tweedy and Gabe Hunt are recognized as major local contributors to CCTS, which provided the county's first two-year high school program for African Americans and later included a teacher cottage, cafeteria, shop, and auditorium. In 1951 a new CCTS opened nearby. Named Campbell County High School in 1952, it closed in 1969 when desegregation was completed.
Erected 2020 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number L-24.)
Location. 37° 16.576′ N, 79° 5.392′ W. Marker is in Rustburg,
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Virginia, in Campbell County. It is on Village Highway (Virginia Route 24) just west of Red House Road (County Road 615), on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1470 Village Hwy, Rustburg VA 24588, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the Piedmont and in Central Virginia. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on November 2, 2024. It was originally submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 803 times since then and 29 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
