Near Victoria in Lunenburg County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Lunenburg High School
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 24, 2021
1. Lunenburg High School Marker
Inscription.
Lunenburg High School. . African American patrons, lacking facilities for secondary education, established Lunenburg Training School here about 1920. The school benefited from the support of the Jeanes Fund, which sponsored African American supervisors of education in rural southern communities. In 1924-25, the Julius Rosenwald Fund contributed $900 for a larger school building. Rosenwald's program, which helped build schools for African Americans across the South, later donated $00 for a shop. The county constructed a brick building here in 1949, and the school was renamed Lunenburg High School in 1951. When county schools were desegregated in 1969, the building became Lunenburg Junior High School.
African American patrons, lacking facilities for secondary education, established Lunenburg Training School here about 1920. The school benefited from the support of the Jeanes Fund, which sponsored African American supervisors of education in rural southern communities. In 1924-25, the Julius Rosenwald Fund contributed $900 for a larger school building. Rosenwald's program, which helped build schools for African Americans across the South, later donated $00 for a shop. The county constructed a brick building here in 1949, and the school was renamed Lunenburg High School in 1951. When county schools were desegregated in 1969, the building became Lunenburg Junior High School.
Erected 2015 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number SN-70.)
Location. 36° 58.616′ N, 78° 12.526′ W. Marker is near Victoria, Virginia, in Lunenburg County.
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It is on K-V Road (Route 40) just east of School Road (Virginia Route 707), on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 817 K-V Rd, Victoria VA 23974, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Virginia’s Piedmont, in Southside Virginia, and specifically 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.
Another marker is no longer nearby. The People's Community Center (was approx. 1.1 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
Credits. This page was last revised on September 26, 2021. It was originally submitted on September 26, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 1,448 times since then and 67 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on September 26, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
