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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 Richmond County, Virginia

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Name Built[2][3] Location City Status[2][3] Note[2][3]
Downing School Unknown, near 302 Hales Point Road

37°50′25″N 76°37′28″W / 37.84027°N 76.62441°W / 37.84027; -76.62441 (Downing School)

Farnham 1926 Moratico USGS map shows school on Hales Point Road with a church across the road.
Sharps School 1929-30 4284 Sharps Road

37°50′46″N 76°41′17″W / 37.84615°N 76.68818°W / 37.84615; -76.68818 (Sharps School)

Sharps standing, occupied
Warsaw school 1925-26 unknown demolished
  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.