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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 Norfolk County, Virginia[edit]
(note, Norfolk County became Chesapeake City in the 1960s)
| Name | Built[2][3] | Location | City | Status[2][3] | Note[2][3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Mill School | 1923-24 | Approximate location of site at Bells Mill Rd and Alexander Lane, Chesapeake | Chesapeake | demolished | 2-teacher design;School once stood on the south side of Bells Mill Road near Alexander Lane, in what is now the City of Chesapeake (historically called Norfolk County, as identified in Fisk records). Approximate location mapped, more research needed. |
| Deep Creek School | 1926-27 | 136 George Washington Highway N | Chesapeake | demolished | 4-teacher design; |
| Dozier's Corner School | 1926-27 | vicinity of 1013 Great Bridge Blvd | Chesapeake | demolished | 2-teacher design; Fisk calls the school Doziers Corner; community name may have been Mt Olive School near Mt Olive Baptist Church, near Doziers Corner, per 1944 USGS map; Mapped location is approximate, near where Chesapeake Schools, Department of School Plants building currently stands. (Historically Norfolk County) |
| Fentress School | 1926-27 | Near 1116 Fentress Rd, Chesapeake | Chesapeake | demolished | 2-teacher design; Now demolished school likely stood behind the existing 1973 Centerville Chapel AME Church, at 1116 Fentress Rd; Chesapeake was historically Norfolk County. |
| Gilmerton School | 1923-24 | In the vicinity of Shell Road between Currie Ave and Faulk St | Chesapeake | demolished | 4-teacher design; Working hypothesis is that the school stood on Shell Road between the current First Baptist Church Gilmerton and Gilmerton Star AME Zion. Mapped location is approximate, on a now empty lot across from First Baptist Gilmerton.[2] |
| Key Road School | 1926-27 | 3235 Portsmouth Blvd, Portsmouth (historically Norfolk County) | Portsmouth | standing, occupied | 2 Teacher EW Nashville 20; |
| Providence School, County Training School | 1923-24 | 2603 Broad St | Chesapeake | demolished | 4-teacher design; Demolished 4 teacher brick school likely stood to the east of current GW Carver Intermediate School, betw easternmost wing and Campostella Road, as mapped, per 1941 USGS map. |
| West Norfolk School | 1926-27 | Mariner Avenue, between Jackson and Van Buren Streets | Portsmouth | demolished | 4-teacher design; Location is in present day City of Portsmouth which was historically Norfolk County |
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 "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.