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Rosenwald Schools
[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 Halifax County, Virginia
[edit]| Name | Built[2][3] | Location | City | Status[2][3] | Note[2][3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Farmer School | 1926-27 | Stith Lane and Rogers Chapel Road | Clover | demolished | 2-teacher design |
| Catawba School | 1923 | 1134 Volens Road | Nathalie | demolished | 2-teacher design |
| Clover School | 1921-22 | 1161-1199 Clover Rd | Clover | standing, vacant | 3-teacher design |
| Coleman School | 1925-26 | Sandy Beach Road and Rt. 58 | South Boston | demolished | 1-teacher design; Coleman was on the north side of 58, approx 5 miles east of South Boston. |
| Cross Roads School | 1922-23 | near the intersection of Melon Rd and Philpott Rd | South Boston | demolished | 3-teacher design; |
| Elkhorn School | 4031 Leda Rd | Java | standing, community center | 3 Teacher EW Nashville 3 | |
| Green Valley School | 2231 Boxwood Road | Nathalie | demolished | 2-teacher design | |
| Halifax School | unknown | 4-teacher design;This school is currently unknown. No date of construction on Fisk. It may be the Halifax County Training School, but Fisk says this was a four teacher school with a library[2] | |||
| Halifax Training School | 1930-31 | 1030 Cowford Rd | Halifax | demolished (?) | 8=teacher design; Rosenwald Halifax Co Training School was in this location. The current building, built in 1956, does encompass what looks like an earlier gable roof building, but it is not part of the early Rosenwald School as per Halifax Co Historical Society[2] |
| Riverdale School | 1924-25 | SW corner of Riverdale Drive and St. Michaels | South Boston | demolished | 3-teacher design |
| Shiloh School | 1920-21 | 1145 Shiloh Church Road, Nathalie, VA | Nathalie | demolished | 1-teacher design |
| Sinai School | Sinai Road between Sinai Elem School and Mtn Road | Halifax | demolished | 4-teacher design | |
| South Boston School | 1929-1930 | 1927 Jeffress Blvd | South Boston | standing, community center | 4-teacher design; It was Booker T. Washington High School first. In 1948 it became the black grammar school taking the place of the old M.H. Coleman Grammar School previously located on Penick Avenue. Now a community and early learning center |
| Terry School | 1929-30 | approx 8000 River Road | South Boston | demolished | 2-teacher design |
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 d e "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.