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]
1-teacher design; Fairly certain demolished. Hughes Lane shows buildings on USGS 1956 off Thomas Jefferson Hwy Approx 1342 Tho.Jeff Hwy. Aerials show buildings demolished
Keysville School
1930-31
south side of Rte 40, across from Murray Lane, west of Keysville[2]
2-teacher design; Exact location unknown. Mapped off Rte 47, near Rolling Hill Road north of Cullen; An unlabeled school building is mapped near Rolling Hill road but located on Thomas Jefferson hwy 37.186555, -78.691342 (approx) Some older buildings (house and ?cannery) but no school currently at this location.
2-teacher design; Rough Creek is a community and Road north of Phenix. No school marked but several buildings near the church, Red House Road and rte 695
3 Teacher EW Nashville 3; NW corner of the junction of Jones Store Road (632) and Tobacco Hill Road (608) in Red Oak; school is a one-story, wood-framed, 3-teacher type school with large batteries of 9 over 9 windows on the front and back elevations. It sits on brick piers. The interior is in fair shape with 3 classrooms, a kitchen and an entry hall; small museum inside the school with historic images and information.
The Central High Museum is in the shop of the Training School. The interior has been altered but it appears to be a 2-room shop; original windows although some have been bricked over. Large door was made smaller on gable. Same area as Training School.
^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.