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.
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.)
Location. 37° 43.537′ N, 77° 21.982′ W. Marker is in Hanover, Virginia, in Hanover County. Marker 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.
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
Photographed By Bernard Fisher, September 1, 2009
3. Nearby Barrett Juvenile Correction Center
Photographed By Bernard Fisher, September 1, 2009
4. Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center Gate
Photographed By Foster, Richmond, Va., circa 1922
5. Mrs. Janie Porter Barrett
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, Image ID: 1130369
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