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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 Lancaster County, Virginia

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Name Built[2][3] Location City Status[2][3] Note[2][3]
Kamps Mills School 1920-21 12241 Mary Ball Road, Lancaster

37°44′53″N 76°24′12″W / 37.74819°N 76.40339°W / 37.74819; -76.40339 (Kamps Mills School)

Lancaster demolished USGS map calls it Camp Mill.
Lock's Bridge school 1926-27 unknown demolished
Merry Point School 1920-21 Exact location unknown but along Merry Point Road after Buzzard's Neck Road

37°44′32″N 76°27′56″W / 37.74226°N 76.46543°W / 37.74226; -76.46543 (Merry Point School)(approx)

Merry Point demolished
Nutsville school unknown

37°47′14″N 76°32′53″W / 37.78727°N 76.54812°W / 37.78727; -76.54812 (Nutsville School) (approx)

demolished
Shop at County Training School 1928-29 unknown

37°38′54″N 76°23′21″W / 37.64846°N 76.38911°W / 37.64846; -76.38911 (Shop at County Training School) (approx)

Whitestone demolished shop was built to compliment the A.T. Wright Training School (non-Rosenwald); Exact location not known
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c "Rosenwald School Architectural Survey". Preservation Virginia. Preservation Virginia. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database". Fisk University. Retrieved 27 February 2022.