Near St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)
Bayou Paul Colored School
Photographed by Cajun Scrambler, February 26, 2016
1. Bayou Paul Colored School Marker
Inscription.
Established by the United Sons and Daughters Benevolent Society, the Bayou Paul Colored School provided elementary education for African-American children in the Bayou Paul community and served as a meeting hall for the Society. The Society built the School on land that they purchased on January 27, 1920 for twenty-five dollars. Heated by a coal-fired stove, the one room cypress school held thirty-five to forty-eight students, grades first to eighth. A general curriculum of reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, geography, and history was taught by dedicated teachers such as Amanda Aletha Anderson Grace. Mrs. Grace a native of Bayou Goula, Louisiana and a graduate of the Iberville Parish Training School, New Orleans University and Southern University taught at the school for 19 years from 1936 until 1955 when the school was closed and students transferred to the new Sunshine High School. In 2006, the one room cypress building was moved to its current location, just one quarter-mile away from the original site.
Erected by City of St. Gabriel.
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Location. 30° 18.215′ N, 91° 6.788′ W. Marker is near St. Gabriel, Louisiana, in Iberville Parish. It is on Bayou Paul Lane 0.1 miles north of Bayou Paul Rd., on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 915 Bayou Paul Ln., Saint Gabriel LA 70776, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Louisiana’s River Parishes, in Acadiana Cajun Country, and in Greater Baton Rouge. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, on the Gulf Coast, and in the Great River Road Region. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
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Photographed by Cajun Scrambler, February 26, 2016
Photographed by Cajun Scrambler, February 26, 2016
3. Bayou Paul Colored School
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