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Rosenwald Schools

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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 Dinwiddie County, Virginia

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Name Built[2][3] Location City Status[2][3] Note[2][3]
Center Star School 1927-28 15301 Wilkinson Road

37°06′36″N 77°38′22″W / 37.11004°N 77.63931°W / 37.11004; -77.63931 (Center Star School)

Dinwiddie standing, community center 2-teacher design;
Gruby Road School 10608 White Oak Church Rd

37°07′34″N 77°48′54″W / 37.12599°N 77.81512°W / 37.12599; -77.81512 (Gruby Road School)

Wilsons standing, religious 2-teacher design;
Mason No. 17 (Mason Town) School 20504 Mason Town Drive

36°56′42″N 77°33′02″W / 36.94496°N 77.55054°W / 36.94496; -77.55054 (Mason No. 17 (Mason Town) School)

Stony Creek standing, vacant 2-teacher design; Functioned as a store with gas pumps out front.
McKenney School (County Training School) 1924-25 11206 Marguerita D Ragsdale St

36°58′45″N 77°42′35″W / 36.97918°N 77.70962°W / 36.97918; -77.70962 (McKenney School (County Training School))

McKenney demolished 4-teacher design; Two room shop at this school; Building burned evening of March 5, 1925 Insurance collected $1000.00 at the time the building burned the construction was completed and the contractor was painting it.[3]
Shop at County Training School (McKenney School) 1928-29 11206 Marguerita D. Ragsdale St.

36°58′45″N 77°42′34″W / 36.97913°N 77.70943°W / 36.97913; -77.70943 (Shop at County Training School (McKenney School))

McKenney demolished Two-room shop (1 teacher classification)

References

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  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 d "Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database". Fisk University. Retrieved 27 February 2022.