Goochland in Goochland County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Central High School
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), May 8, 2025
1. Central High School Marker
Inscription.
Central High School, Goochland County's only high school for African American students, opened here in 1938. It replaced Fauquier Training School, which stood across the street from 1923, when construction was completed with support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, until it burned in 1937. Central High, a six-room brick building that was later enlarged, was built on an 11-acre site with a grant from the Public Works Administration, a New Deal agency. Its academic, social, and cultural programs were central to the community. After the county desegregated its schools under federal court order in 1969, the building became a junior high school.
Central High School, Goochland County's only high school for African American students, opened here in 1938. It replaced Fauquier Training School, which stood across the street from 1923, when construction was completed with support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, until it burned in 1937. Central High, a six-room brick building that was later enlarged, was built on an 11-acre site with a grant from the Public Works Administration, a New Deal agency. Its academic, social, and cultural programs were central to the community. After the county desegregated its schools under federal court order in 1969, the building became a junior high school.
Erected 2021 by Virginia Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number SA-126.)
Location. 37° 44.767′ N, 77° 55.682′ W. Marker is in Goochland, Virginia, in Goochland County. It is on Dogtown Road south of Mealy Road, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2748 Dogtown Rd, Goochland VA 23063, 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.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), May 8, 2025
2. Central High School Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on May 8, 2025. It was originally submitted on May 8, 2025, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 154 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on May 8, 2025, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
