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[edit]The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee Institute.[1]
Rosenwald schools in Fluvanna County, Virginia
[edit]Name | Built[2][3] | Location | City | Status[2][3] | Note[2][3] |
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Bethel School | 1925-26 | 1693 Shiloh Church Road | Palmyra | standing, occupied, residence | |
Byrd Grove School | 1930-31 | 3016 Cedar Lane | Kents Store | standing, occupied, residence | 2 Teacher EW Nashville 20 |
Edwards School (Lone Star School) | 1925-26 | 699 Jordan Store Road | Kents Store | standing, residence | not recognizable as a Rosenwald School due to additions; nearby is an abandoned building identical to a Rosenwald one-teacher school. Descendants of the Edwards family told us that the Lone Star School is "inside" of the larger home that is still in use; the other structure was built in the 1940s for the Edwards grandparents when their home burned. The community already knew how to build according to the Rosenwald plan, so they built the new home the same way. |
Fork Church (Dunbar) School | 1923-24 | 2550 Mountain Hill Rd | Palmyra | 2 Teacher A NS Nashville 20A | standing, occupied, school |
St. James School (Douglass) | 1930-31 | 17165 James Madison Highway | Palmyra | standing, occupied, residence | 2 Teacher EW Nashville 20 |
West Bottom (West View) School | 1923-24 | 2996 Bremo Road | Bremo Bluff | demolished | First school was built 1923-1924; burned; built again 1929-1930. |
West Bottom School #2 | 1929-30 | 2996 Bremo Road | Bremo Bluff | demolished |
References
[edit]- ^ Deutsch, Stephanie (2015). You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-3127-7.
- ^ a b c "Rosenwald School Architectural Survey". Preservation Virginia. Preservation Virginia. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ a b c "Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database". Fisk University. Retrieved 27 February 2022.