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Rosenwald Schools Historical Markers
Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck established a foundation that funded 4,977 schools for African Americans throughout the south from 1912 to 1932.
On Curtis Road at Macedonia Road, on the right when traveling east on Curtis Road.
Constructed to educate black children
during the Jim Crow era, the Macedonia
Rosenwald School was the educational
and cultural center of the community. The
school was constructed in 1923-24 by
the Webb brothers, who were local
builders, and . . . — — Map (db m235180) HM
On Sherman Line Road north of Hamp Lee Road, on the left when traveling north.
The Sherman Line Rosenwald School was
established in 1928 for the education of black
youth in the Sherman community from Pike and
Amite counties. Partial funding for the school
was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund,
while the land was . . . — — Map (db m201231) HM
On Ginntown Road, 0.5 miles east of East Lexie Road, on the right when traveling east.
The Walthall County Training School had its beginning in the 1870s when Isaac Ginn began to teach the local African American children to read and write in a small, one room, split-log cabin structure. Using Rosenwald Foundation funds this structure . . . — — Map (db m115535) HM
On North Washington Street (Business Highway 61) near R L Chase Circle, on the right when traveling south.
In 1920-21, the Sandy Bottom School
(the original name for Kings School) was built
with funding assistance from the Rosenwald
Foundation, a philanthropic organization
dedicated to building schools for African
American students in the rural . . . — — Map (db m157542) HM
On Highway 343, 0.1 miles north of Bunker Hill Road (State Highway 1217), on the right when traveling north.
This location is the site of the original "McBride Colored School". The school was erected in 1926 during the era of segregation in the rural South for the education of African American children grades 1-12.
Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. . . . — — Map (db m211237) HM
On Virginia Road (North Carolina Route 32) at Luke Street, on the right when traveling west on Virginia Road.
Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington established fund in 1912 to provide grants to African American communities to improve education. In N.C. the fund assisted with 817 projects in 93 counties. The first one was Warren Grove School, a . . . — — Map (db m225206) HM
On Cameron Avenue, 0.1 miles north of East 12th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Named for prominent local African-American education pioneer, Dr. Simon Green Atkins, Atkins High School was designed by Harold Macklin in the Classical Revival style and constructed 1930-1931. Atkins was the first school in Winston-Salem built as a . . . — — Map (db m83275) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 37) 0.5 miles south of Alternate U.S. 158, on the left when traveling south.
Still on its original site, the Reid's Grove School educated African American students in the Gatesville area. Completed on November 5, 1927 and closed in 1951, it was one of seven schools in Gates County (and one of over 800 in North Carolina) . . . — — Map (db m79796) HM
On Tingen Road south of James Street, on the right when traveling south.
Apex Elementary, a public school for Black students, opened in 1932
during the era of segregation. Apex was one of over 5000 schools built
to improve education for Black children, the result of collaboration between
Booker T. Washington and . . . — — Map (db m233977) HM
On Humie Olive Road (State Road 1142) west of Evans Road (State Road 1147), on the left when traveling west.
J. Rosenwald of Sears and Roebuck
($700), the Black Community ($890)
and the State of NC funded the original Friendship School located .3 miles
east. During the Jim Crow Era, the Rosenwald
Fund helped build 5,300 schools from MD to TX
from 1913 . . . — — Map (db m233972) HM
On West Jones Street east of Lawrence Street, on the left when traveling east.
Fuquay Consolidated School received funding from the
Rosenwald Fund in 1918. The first class was held the
following year. Fuquay Consolidated School was built
on the four teacher plan. Fuquay Consolidated School
was among the first to benefit . . . — — Map (db m233779) HM
On Stinson Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Grigsby Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
A public school for Black children stood
here from the 1920s until the early 1970s.
It was one of 5,000 schools envisioned by
Booker T. Washington, that philanthropist
Julius Rosenwald helped build for Black children in
the South. Donations . . . — — Map (db m233796) HM
On Cherry Road, 0.1 miles south of Ambrose Road, on the right when traveling west.
Conceived in the 1900's by black educator Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee staff. The Rosenwald program represented a massive effort to improve black rural schooling in the South through public-private partnership. Rosenwald schools were also . . . — — Map (db m57043) HM
On Lincoln Heights Road, 0.2 miles south of Grinton Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Built in 1924 as a six teacher brick Rosenwald School and served as a “Haven of Knowledge” for colored students in Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes and Yadkin Counties. The original structure was an H-shape design. The Julius Rosenwald . . . — — Map (db m210435) HM
On North Chestnut Street south of East 10th Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Julius Rosenwald Fund. In 1912, Tuskegee Institute President Dr. Booker T. Washington invited Jewish-American philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to serve on the Tuskegee board of directors to help African American education, where rural, . . . — — Map (db m232470) HM
On Hampton Avenue Northeast at Kershaw Street Northeast, on the right when traveling east on Hampton Avenue Northeast.
This park is the site of Aiken Graded School, a two-story brick school built 1924-25. It was built for black pupils in grades 1-7 and was one of almost 500 S.C. schools funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation 1917-1932. Black Aiken . . . — — Map (db m239018) HM
This area was a hub of African-American life from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries. Anderson County Training School, built ca. 1922 as a Rosenwald school, closed in 1954 under the equalization program for black and white schools. It burned in . . . — — Map (db m54824) HM
On North Live Oak Drive (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling north.
(Front text) Berkeley Training High School, located here from 1955 to 1970, replaced a four-room wood school 1 mi. S at Main St. and Old U.S. Hwy. 52. That school, built in 1918-1920 at a cost of $6,700, had been partially funded by the . . . — — Map (db m41606) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 6) at U.S. 52 on Main Street.
[Front] Berkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s. The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. It held classes in local churches until its first . . . — — Map (db m29133) HM
On Russellville Road (State Highway 8-18) at Cedar Drive, on the left when traveling west on Russellville Road.
(Marker Front)St. Stephen Colored School St. Stephen Colored School, the first public African American school in St. Stephen, was built here in 1924-25. A three-room frame building, it was one of almost 500 schools in S.C. funded in part . . . — — Map (db m29334) HM
On West Broad Street just north of West Carolina Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Lincolnville School
Lincolnville School, the first public school for black students in this community, stood here from 1924 to 1953. Built at a cost of $6,100, it was one of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius . . . — — Map (db m223811) HM
On Centerville Road, on the right when traveling north.
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Pine Hill A.M.E. Church
This church, founded in 1876, was in Marion County before Dillon County was created in 1910. At first on S.C. Hwy. 34, the church acquired this site in 1891 when Alfred Franklin Page (1863-1929) and . . . — — Map (db m48927) HM
On Liberty Chapel Road, on the right when traveling east.
[Front] This school, built in 1925, was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community. One of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, it features a standard . . . — — Map (db m37335) HM
On Duckett Street at Mount Zion Drive (County Road 89) on Duckett Street.
[Front]:
The Fountain Inn Rosenwald School, also known as the Fountain Inn Colored School, was a complex of several buildings built here from 1928 to 1942. The first school, a frame seven-room elementary school for grades 1-7, was a . . . — — Map (db m50524) HM
On Moore Street east of Cook Street, on the right when traveling east.
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Cedar Grove Baptist Church
According to tradition, this African-American church was organized by Rev. Tom Jones shortly after the Civil War. It held its first services in a brush arbor, then built its first permanent church . . . — — Map (db m168395) HM
On Woodruff Road, 0.1 miles south of Granary Drive, on the right when traveling south.
(front)
Old Pilgrim Baptist Church
This church was founded in 1868 by black members of nearby Clear Spring Baptist Church who named their new church Pilgrim Baptist Church. Rev. John Abraham, their first pastor, held services in a . . . — — Map (db m198265) HM
On Cedar Street at Lewis Street, on the right when traveling west on Cedar Street.
[Marker Front]
Loris Training School, which stood here from 1928 to 1955, was the first school for black students in Loris and other nearby communities. Built at a cost of $4,700, it was one of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in . . . — — Map (db m26754) HM
On State Highway 707, 0.2 miles south of McDowell Short Cut Road (State Highway 477), on the right when traveling north.
Marker Front:
St. James Rosenwald School, which stood here from the late 1920s until the early 1970s, was one of several African-American schools in Horry County funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. Rev. Smart Small, Sr. . . . — — Map (db m27331) HM
On 10th Avenue North at Carver Street, on the right when traveling east on 10th Avenue North.
Myrtle Beach Colored School stood here from the early 1930s to 2001. The first public school for African-American students in Myrtle Beach, it was a six-room frame building similar to the schools funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation . . . — — Map (db m23510) HM
On West Mill Street east of Pleasantview Drive, on the right when traveling west.
[Front]:
The Laurens County Training School, located here 1924-1954, had its origins in Gray Court School, a one-room school founded ca. 1890 on the grounds of Pleasant View Baptist Church. The training school, opened in 1924 in a . . . — — Map (db m22904) HM
On Hope Station Road near Peak Road (South Carolina Highway 36-33), on the right when traveling south.
This school, built in 1925-26 at a cost of $2,900, was one of more than 500 rural African-American schools in S.C. funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation between 1917 and 1932. The original two-acre lot for the school was donated by . . . — — Map (db m42139) HM
[Front]:
This school, often called Retreat Colored School, was built in 1923 for the African-American students in and near Westminster. A two-room, two-teacher, elementary school, it was built by local builder William Walker Bearden of . . . — — Map (db m53235) HM
On Bowman Branch Hwy (State Highway 210), on the right when traveling west.
Bowman Rosenwald School, which stood here from 1927 to 1952, was one of several African-American schools in Orangeburg County funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. The school, built in 1926-27 at a cost of $6,000, was a five-room . . . — — Map (db m43525) HM
On Norway Road (County Highway 332) 0.3 miles west of Trojan Street (County Highway 2218), on the right when traveling west.
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This is the site of the Rocky Swamp Rosenwald School, a frame three-room school built here in 1920-21 for African-American students in Neeses and vicinity. An elementary school with two to three teachers in grades 1-9, it was one of . . . — — Map (db m103398) HM
On Geathers Street east of Desaussure Circle, on the right when traveling east.
Felton Training School was completed in 1925 and was financed in part by the Rosenwald Fund (1917-1948). It was a four-teacher school for African American students built according to Rosenwald floor plan no. 400. Felton was a practice school . . . — — Map (db m223748) HM
On Neeses Highway (State Highway 4) near State Rd S-38-1695 (State Highway 38-1695), on the right when traveling west.
(Front text) The Great Branch School, which stood here from 1918 to the early 1960s, was one of the first Rosenwald schools in S.C. A two-room frame school built in 1917-18, it was typical of the rural black schools funded in part by the . . . — — Map (db m80046) HM
On Piney Woods Road (State Highway 40-674), on the left when traveling south.
This school, built in 1923 at a cost of $2,500, is one of 500 African-American schools in S.C. funded
in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. It is a two-room school typical of smaller Rosenwald schools.
From 1923 to . . . — — Map (db m46343) HM
On Broad River Road (U.S. 176), on the right when traveling north.
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., (1910-1925), helped fund this black school, built 1918. The original two-room structure was named in Rosenwald's honor and the school's curriculum eventually included . . . — — Map (db m42157) HM
On Ridge Hill Drive at Williams Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Ridge Hill Drive.
Ridge Hill School
This school, built in 1934, replaced the Ridge Hill Rosenwald School, a six-classroom frame school built in 1923-24. That school was funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, building more than 500 African-American . . . — — Map (db m41548) HM
On Tinker Creek Road at Mattie Drive, on the right when traveling east on Tinker Creek Road.
(Front)
Poplar Grove School opened in 1927 as a four-classroom school for African American students in Union Co. An extra classroom was added in 1941. In the mid-1960s the original four classrooms were removed and the remaining large . . . — — Map (db m159621) HM
On Steele Street (State Highway 270) just south of Avery Street, on the right when traveling south.
This was the site of Fort Mill's longest operating school dedicated to African Americans. Built on a 4-acre parcel acquired in 1925, the brick school opened in 1926 and cost $12,200, a portion of which was paid by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The . . . — — Map (db m175647) HM
On Harris Street at Jackson Street, on the left when traveling north on Harris Street.
The historic Training school for Negroes was constructed in 1926 with $2,500 required donations from the Milan Negro citizens, $16,000 of public school funds, and $1,500 from the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Tuskegee Institute Principal Booker T. . . . — — Map (db m68484) HM
On Steekee Road at West Street, on the right when traveling north on Steekee Road.
With support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the African American community, and public funds, Dunbar Rosenwald School was built in 1923 at a cost of $5,700. The only Rosenwald school in the county for approximately 258 school-age children . . . — — Map (db m167260) HM
On North Cedar Avenue (Tennessee Route 27) south of Old Jasper Road, on the right when traveling south.
In 1917 no high school for African Americans existed in Marion County. That year Brown McReynolds led a committee to establish an African American high school. The following year a school for African American students opened in a rented space. In . . . — — Map (db m184066) HM
On Southport Road at Rainey Street, on the right when traveling west on Southport Road.
In the early 1920s, African Americans Joseph Worley, Andrew Polk, and Finn Wray, along
with the community, city and county governments secured funds to build the “Mt. Pleasant
Colored School.” A Rosenwald facility, it was later named . . . — — Map (db m152135) HM
On South Highland Avenue at Ash Street, on the left when traveling south on South Highland Avenue.
In 1929 Holloway High School was erected on this site for African American students in Rutherford County. It was named in honor of local attorney, Mr. E. C. Holloway, who advocated for improving African American schools in the county. The last . . . — — Map (db m146032) HM
On A D Washington Parkway, 0.2 miles Mason Tucker Drive, on the left when traveling west.
1870
Clem Ross gives land for Mt. View Church and School
1874
Richard Benson sells land to Mt. View trustees for church and school for $5. School was built by Ross family and Mt. View Church Family.
1912
Julius Rosenwald . . . — — Map (db m146614) HM
Manassas High School
Manassas High School was established by Spencer Johnson and others in 1899 on the west side of Manassas Street. Originally a two-room framed structure in 1900, more rooms were added between 1902 and 1904. In 1918, a . . . — — Map (db m87974) HM
On Dallas Street, 0.1 miles north of Park Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Melrose School was an educational, cultural and civic center of the Orange Mound African-American community. Completed by the New Deal's Public Works Administration in 1938. This structure added to the original Rosenwald school's capacity to . . . — — Map (db m149029) HM
On Wheatley Street, 0.1 miles south of Martin Luther King, Jr, on the right when traveling south.
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The only school for African Americans in Kingsport began in 1913 as the Oklahoma Grove School near downtown. With Rosenwald and community funds, the first Douglass School building was constructed in 1928. A new structure was . . . — — Map (db m76645) HM
On Old U.S. 31E south of U.S. 31E, on the left when traveling south.
Built in 1923 for African Americans during the era of racial segregation, the two-room Durham's Chapel Rosenwald School was used until 1962. It was constructed with funds from the African American community, the county, and the Rosenwald Fund, . . . — — Map (db m151859) HM
On Zieglers Fort Road, 0.1 miles north of Cairo Road, on the left when traveling north.
Located 2.6 miles south of here is the Cairo Rosenwald School. Completed in 1923, it provided educational opportunities for African American children until 1959. Funding for the school's construction was provided by the African American community, . . . — — Map (db m178545) HM
On Small Street west of Magnolia Street, in the median.
Completed in 1922 on East Winchester Street, Union High School was Sumner County's first and only secondary school for African-American youth. The African-American community, public, and Rosenwald Funds provided funding for construction. The first . . . — — Map (db m151861) HM
On East Market Street at Ward Street, on the right when traveling west on East Market Street.
Wilson County Training School for African-American students operated on this site from 1923 to 1969. The Rosenwald buildings included a 1923 elementary school and a 1928 high school. In the 1950s the high school was replaced and the elementary . . . — — Map (db m157272) HM
A grant from the Rosenwald Foundation of Chicago led to the establishment of a local school for African American students. The foundation represented a collaboration between Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, and the . . . — — Map (db m83276) HM
In 1928, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Dallas recognized a growing need for expanded facilities across the city. In the African American neighborhood of North Dallas, citizens raised $75,000 ($25,000 more than their goal) in . . . — — Map (db m81308) HM
On State Highway 2919 near Powell Point School Road, on the left when traveling west.
William E. Kendall, an Anglo lawyer from Richmond, Texas, subdivided his plantation here into 100-acre farm tracts in 1869. He sold the land exclusively to Freedmen and by the 1880s a distinctly African American community named Kendleton had . . . — — Map (db m201991) HM
On County Road 317 west of County Road 314, on the right when traveling east.
Julius Rosenwald was a Jewish American philanthropist. He believed the most serious problem of the United States was the plight of Black Americans. Dr. Booker T. Washington, though having been a slave, rose to become the nationally respected . . . — — Map (db m229538) HM
On State Highway 7, on the left when traveling west.
A symbol of Black America's pride in education, plus crusade of Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), a Chicagoan who in 1913 began to fund school buildings for Negroes. By 1920, when this one-teacher structure was built at Ratcliff (4 miles east), . . . — — Map (db m201868) HM
On Blake Manor Road at Union Lee Church Road, on the right when traveling north on Blake Manor Road.
According to oral tradition, this congregation began meeting together for outdoor worship services in 1874. In 1884, Leonard Eck donated land, the B.J. Lee family gave a building, and the church was formally organized with the Rev. Anthony Winn as . . . — — Map (db m26696) HM
On St John Road (Virginia Route 640) 1 mile south of Gordonsville Road (Route 231), on the right when traveling south.
The St. John School, built here in 1922–1923, served African-American students during the segregation era. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck and Co., collaborated with Booker T. Washington in a school-building campaign begining in . . . — — Map (db m102560) HM
On Virginia Route 39 at T. C. Walker Road (County Route 635), on the left when traveling west on State Route 39.
T.C. Walker School, which opened in 1930, was named for Thomas Calhoun Walker a former slave from Gloucester County who became the first African American attorney in Virginia. It cost $4,600, and was underwritten with $500 from the Julius Rosenwald . . . — — Map (db m69471) HM
On Main Street (County Route 615) just east of Pinehurst Heights Road (County Road 616), on the right when traveling west.
Union Hurst, a school for African Americans, was built near here on Pine Hurst Heights Road between 1924 and 1925. The school was built with the assistance of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a program that helped build some 5,000 schools for African . . . — — Map (db m70245) HM
On Brunswick Drive (County Route 644) at Exit 24 (Interstate 85) on Brunswick Drive.
Among the earliest of the more than a dozen
Julius Rosenwald Schools built in Brunswick
County, Saint Paul’s Chapel School was constructed
as a one-teacher standard plan in 1920 under
the initial wave of Tuskegee Institute-administered building . . . — — Map (db m107433) HM
Near Camden Street (Virginia Route 1001) 0.1 miles south of Hancock Street (Virginia Route 1001), on the left when traveling south.
The Buckingham Training School sits on 9.25 acres and was established as a result of Stephen J. Ellis' longtime efforts to establish a secondary school for African American students in the Buckingham County area. Ellis first organized the . . . — — Map (db m181214) HM
On North Madison Road (U.S. 15) at South Constitution Route (State Highway 20), on the right when traveling south on North Madison Road.
One mile southeast stood Buckingham Training School, the first high school in the county for African American students. In 1919 the Rev. Stephen J. Ellis organized the County-Wide League for School Improvement to persuade the Buckingham County . . . — — Map (db m29157) HM
On Village Highway (Virginia Route 24) just west of Red House Road (County Road 615), on the right when traveling west.
Campbell County Training School (CCTS) opened here ca. 1923 after African American citizens campaigned for better schools. The black community, the county, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund paid for its construction. Rosenwald, inspired . . . — — Map (db m181140) HM
Near The Glebe Lane (Virginia Route 615) 0.1 miles west of Ruthville Road (Virginia Route 612).
Schools were precious to a community denied education for centuries. Following the Civil War one and two-room schools for "colored" children were established around the county. It was here in Ruthville, however, that a commitment to learning first . . . — — Map (db m26335) HM
On Virginia Route 5 at Virginia Route 619 on State Route 5.
The Weanoc Indians gave this area its name. The Minge family settled much of the Weyanoke peninsula during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landmarks have included Weyanoke Parish Church, Tyler’s Mill, a steamboat landing, a post office at . . . — — Map (db m59618) HM
On Thomas Jefferson Highway (Route 47) north of Union Cemetery Road (Virginia Route 709), on the left when traveling north.
Central High School opened in 1939 as Charlotte County's first African American high school. Before its construction, African American students attended the Charlotte Training School, which had been built between 1928 and 1929 with . . . — — Map (db m182502) HM
On Cargills Creek Road (County Route 632) at Salem School Road (County Route 608), on the right when traveling west on Cargills Creek Road. Reported permanently removed.
After the Civil War, in the Red Oak area of Charlotte County, many freed slaves were welcomed to worship at Antioch Baptist Church, a traditionally white church. The Antioch congregation helped raise money to build Salem Baptist Church in . . . — — Map (db m30999) HM
On Cargills Creek Road (County Road 632) just west of Tobacco Hill Road (County Road 608), on the right when traveling west.
After the Civil War, in the Red Oak area of Charlotte County, many freed slaves were welcomed to worship at Antioch Baptist Church, a traditionally white church. The Antioch congregation helped raise money to build Salem Baptist Church in . . . — — Map (db m182464) HM
On Westfield Road just west of Railroad Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
First African Baptist Church of Coalfield, which stood about a mile southeast of here, opened a school for African Americans in 1866. After a fire in 1877, the congregation moved here and renamed itself First Baptist Church in Midlothian. Church . . . — — Map (db m180215) HM
Near Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) 0.1 miles north of Ampthill Road, on the right when traveling north.
Julius Rosenwald, a former president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., continued the efforts made by numerous philanthropists to bring education to African Americans in the South. During the early 1900s, funding for schools was scarce; the South had half . . . — — Map (db m21159) HM
On Ruffin Street just east of North Main Street (U.S. 301), on the left when traveling east.
The Greensville County Training School (GCTS) began sometime before 1912 as a small wood-frame building and went on to contribute to African American education in Emporia for more than 50 years. An addition in 1929 resulted in GCTS being one . . . — — Map (db m180459) HM
On George Mason Boulevard at School Street, on the left when traveling south on George Mason Boulevard.
The Fairfax Rosenwald School or “Fairfax Colored School” was constructed in 1925–26 on this site. It replaced an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of the Fairfax Cemetery. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of . . . — — Map (db m29482) HM
On Rectortown Road (County Route 710) 0.3 miles north of Frogtown Road (Virginia Route 702), on the left when traveling north.
In 1912, Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, asked Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish Philanthropist and President of Sears, Roebuck & Company, to serve on the Board of Directors at Tuskegee. Their unique partnership led . . . — — Map (db m160918) HM
On Alexandria Pike (Business U.S. 15/211) at North Street, on the right when traveling north on Alexandria Pike.
In 1912, Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, asked Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish Philanthropist and President of Sears, Roebuck & Company, to serve on the board of directors at Tuskegee. Their unique partnership led to the . . . — — Map (db m137506) HM
On T C Walker Road (Virginia Route 629) 0.1 miles south of Seawell Avenue (Virginia Route 1411), on the left when traveling south.
Built on this site in 1921 the Gloucester Training School became the first public high school for African Americans in Gloucester County. Thomas Calhoun Walker, Jr. and others constructed a wooden building with gifts from the Rosenwald Fund and . . . — — Map (db m30114) HM
On George Washington Memorial Highway (U.S. 17) 0.5 miles north of Ernest Lane (Virginia Route 667), on the right when traveling south.
Woodville School is an important monument to Gloucester County and the African American community who strove to ensure quality education for their children in the early 20th century. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, aided . . . — — Map (db m30122) HM
On Hadensville-Fife Road (Virginia Route 606) north of Chimney Springs Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Second Union School, which operated until 1959 is the oldest-surviving of the 10 Rosenwald schools built in Goochland County. The African American community and Goochland County contributed funds to the building. Constructed in 1918, the building is . . . — — Map (db m31607) HM
On Chatsworth Road, 0.1 miles north of New Market Road (Virginia Route 5), on the right when traveling north.
Chatsworth School was built circa 1915 as a one-room schoolhouse for the black children of the Antioch Community. Chatsworth was one of approximately twenty black schools in Henrico County supervised by the visionary educator, Virginia E. Randolph. . . . — — Map (db m25489) HM
On Main Street (Business U.S. 258) at Church Manor Trail, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
African Americans prioritized education after Emancipation, and many attended one-or two-room schools built alongside churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Christian Home School was built eight miles south of here, near Christian Home . . . — — Map (db m243623) HM
On King William Road (Route 30) south of Walkerton Road (Virginia Route 629), on the left when traveling south.
King William Training School was erected here in 1922-23 on the site of the King William Academy (1903-22). The Rosenwald Foundation, which built more than 5,300 black schools in the South, the African American community, and the county funded the . . . — — Map (db m47168) HM
On Diamond Street at Maury Street, on the left when traveling east on Diamond Street.
Lylburn Downing School opened here in 1927 after
the Home and School League, an organization of
local Black parents and citizens. campaigned for
equitable schools. Built with financial support
from the Black community. Rockbridge County,
and . . . — — Map (db m207788) HM
On Three Chopt Road (Virginia Route 634) 0.1 miles west of Broad Street Road (U.S. 250), on the right when traveling west.
African Americans in this area organized a patrons' league and campaigned in the 1920s for a new school to replace the inadequate facility then in use. Shady Grove School, built on a standard one-teacher architectural plan, opened here in 1925 for . . . — — Map (db m170106) HM
On Jefferson Highway (U.S. 33) east of School Bus Road (County Route 767).
Louisa Training School, the county’s first high
school for African American students, was built
three miles northwest in 1926 with aid from the
Rosenwald Fund. In 1953, Archie Gibbs Richardson
High School replaced it here as part of an . . . — — Map (db m107854) HM
On K-V Road (Route 40) just east of School Road (Virginia Route 707), on the right when traveling east.
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 . . . — — Map (db m182557) HM
On Concord Turnpike at Spinoza Circle, on the right when traveling north on Concord Turnpike.
The Megginson School was built here ca. 1923 for the African American students in the Pleasant Valley community, then part of Campbell County. Albert Megginson (1831-1923), formerly enslaved, purchased land in this area after the Civil War and later . . . — — Map (db m179861) HM
On Liberty Street north of Grant Avenue (Virginia Route 234), on the right when traveling north.
The earliest story on record of educating local African American students began ca. 1869, when the Manassas Village Colored School opened on the corner of Liberty and Prince William Streets. This two-room frame structure was a private school, . . . — — Map (db m214238) HM
On Church Street East (Business U.S. 58) at Boden Street, on the right when traveling east on Church Street East.
Henry County opened a new Dry Bridge School just south of here in 1928 after the School Improvement League, an organization of African Americans living east of Martinsville, campaigned under the leadership of the Rev. W. F. Geter to replace the . . . — — Map (db m205807) HM
On Church Street (Virginia Route 611) just south of Put-In-Creek Road, on the left when traveling north.
African Americans formed the Mathews Educational League in 1923 and raised $9,900 to build a four-room school here in 1926-1927. Donations came mainly from the black community, with additional contributions from white residents, the county school . . . — — Map (db m176022) HM
On East Virginia Street east of South Mecklenburg Avenue.
In 1915, four influential African American residents of South Hill—the Rev. J. H. Simmons,
Mary E. Simmons, Robert Walker, and James E.
Skipwith—established the Mecklenburg County
Training School for black students. The school
operated in the . . . — — Map (db m107443) HM
On General Puller Highway (Virginia Route 33) 0.5 miles east of Union Park Road, on the right when traveling west.
African American residents of Middlesex County established the Langston Training School (later the Middlesex Training School) in 1917 to serve elementary and high school students. The Rosenwald Fund supported construction of a new building ca. 1921. . . . — — Map (db m175980) HM
On East Main Street (U.S. 11) at North Franklin Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.
Recently emancipated African Americans yearned for education after the Civil War. They worked to build schools and educate themselves, often with assistance from the Freedmen's Bureau.
Freedmen's Bureau agent, Captain Charles Schaeffer, helped . . . — — Map (db m209264) HM
On Old Cape Charles Road (County Route 641), on the right when traveling south.
Constructed in 1928, this school opened about 1930 for African American children in Cape Charles during
legalized segregation. The building was constructed with contributions from the local African American
community, the State Literary Fund, . . . — — Map (db m51004) HM