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]
School may be standing but is located on private property. location mapped represents the most likely roof and chimney design to be the surviving 2-teacher school. Correspondence from an alum, Sept 2019, that states the school is demolished but the privy remains.
north side of Route 690/Newtown Road, elevated above road and set back at the rear of a large lot. Mountainous terrain overall. Close to Mount Zion Baptist and just south of Route 64 (but not accessible from it). Stone foundation, raised. Appears to be metal roof
potential teacher's cottage sits almost alongside road, see site map;Unique 1-teacher plan constructed with textured concrete block; The Albemarle County Historical Commission notes the residence in front of the school as being a teacher's cottage, also constructed of masonry block.
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. ISBN0-8101-3127-7.
