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Rosenwald Schools

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 Northumberland County, Virginia

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Name	Built^[2]^[3]	Location	City	Status^[2]^[3]	Note^[2]^[3]
Avalon School	1925-26	Avalon Lane (636) 37°54′37″N 76°25′41″W / 37.91015°N 76.42799°W / 37.91015; -76.42799 (Avalon School)	Heathsville	standing, occupied, other	On Avalon Lane, just off Route 360. Used as a school bus lot (and very likely as a dispatch center).
Branch Chapel School #2	1925-26	1550 Lively Hope Rd 37°58′06″N 76°35′22″W / 37.96829°N 76.58934°W / 37.96829; -76.58934 (Branch Chapel School #2)	Callao	standing, occupied, religious	2-teacher plan but looks like Tuskegee 1-teacher plan; Lively Hope Baptist Church purchased the school in 1960 and moved the school house to the back of the Church to use as an annex and the property where the schoolhouse stood is now a cemetery.
Hygeia School	1923-24	near 15932 Northumberland Hwy (360), near Muscadine Lane 37°52′49″N 76°20′10″W / 37.8802°N 76.33612°W / 37.8802; -76.33612 (Hygeia School)	Burgess	standing, vacant, derelict	Off Route 360, directly behind a Dollar General store; overgrown with little of the building visible
Mt. Olive School	1921-22	vicinity of Crosshills & Balls Neck Rd 37°47′39″N 76°22′01″W / 37.79406°N 76.36699°W / 37.79406; -76.36699 (Mt. Olive School)	Heathsville	demolished	This school replaced an earlier school.
Shop at County Training School	1928-29	19602 Northumberland Highway 37°51′31″N 76°16′56″W / 37.85853°N 76.28222°W / 37.85853; -76.28222 (Shop at County Training School)	Reedville	standing, vacant	Shop building located adjacent to the two-story school; Exterior appears to be covered with a corrugated metal material
Bridgeneck County Training (Julius Rosenwald High School/Northumberland Co Training)	1928-29	19602 Northumberland Hwy 37°51′32″N 76°16′56″W / 37.85884°N 76.2822°W / 37.85884; -76.2822 (Bridgeneck County Training School)	Reedville	standing, vacant	6 Teacher w Auditorium EW Nashville 60; Bridgeneck/Northumberland County Training School/Julius Rosenwald High School; shop building located adjacent. Two-storey wood frame, well-preserved interior with an auditorium; Shop building adjacent; Dated 1917

References

^ 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.

[Deutsch-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.

[PVa-2] "Rosenwald School Architectural Survey". Preservation Virginia. Preservation Virginia. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

[Fisk-3] "Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database". Fisk University. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

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