Hanover in Hanover County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Janie Porter Barrett

(9 Aug. 1865-27 Aug. 1948)

Photographed by Bernard Fisher, September 1, 2009

1. Janie Porter Barrett Marker

Inscription. Janie Porter Barrett was born in Athens, Ga. She graduated from Hampton Institute and soon began teaching home-management techniques to other young African American women and girls. In 1915, Barrett founded the Industrial School for Wayward Colored Girls nearby, the third reform school specifically for black girls in the United States. The school long survived its predecessors in Maryland and Missouri, and was also the first - and for several years the only - such state-supported school. Barrett used progressive, humane methods, operating on an honor system and forbidding corporal punishment. In 1950, the school was renamed the Janie Porter School for Girls.

Erected 1999 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number ND-12.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Charity & Public Work • Education • Women. In addition, it is included in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1915.

Location. 37° 43.537′ N, 77° 21.982′ W. Marker is in Hanover, Virginia, in Hanover County. It is at the intersection of Hanover Courthouse Road (U.S.

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301) and Georgetown Road, on the right on Hanover Courthouse Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Hanover VA 23069, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Virginia’s Piedmont,

in Central Virginia,

and in the Richmond Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

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.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Henry Clay's Birthplace (approx. 1½ miles away); Cornwallis’s Route (approx. 1½ miles away); John Henry Smyth (approx. 1.6 miles away); Hanover Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.8 miles away); The Colonial River Road (approx. 1.9 miles away); a different marker also named Hanover Tavern (approx. 2½ miles away); a different marker also named Hanover Tavern (approx. 2½ miles away); a different marker also named Hanover Tavern (approx. 2½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hanover.

Other markers no longer nearby. Clay's Birthplace (was approx. 1½ miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); Hanover Tavern (was approx. 2½ miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Also see . . . Janie Porter Barrett was a reformer. The African American Registry. (Submitted on September 7, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.)

Photographed by Bernard Fisher, September 1, 2009

2. Janie Porter Barrett Marker

Nearby Barrett Juvenile Correction Center image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bernard Fisher, September 1, 2009

3. Nearby Barrett Juvenile Correction Center

Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center Gate image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bernard Fisher, September 1, 2009

4. Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center Gate

Mrs. Janie Porter Barrett image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Foster, Richmond, Va., circa 1922

5. Mrs. Janie Porter Barrett

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, Image ID: 1130369

Credits. This page was last revised on July 7, 2021. It was originally submitted on September 7, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia. This page has been viewed 2,972 times since then and 52 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on September 7, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.