Irreplaceable Landmark for Sale--Woodville School
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The Woodville School (1923) in Gloucester County, Virginia is a Rosenwald school and is on the National Register of Historic Places, listed February 11, 2002 with ID reference #04000042. It was built in 1923 at a cost of $3500 replacing an earlier school for African-Americans. The 3 school districts in the county consolidated, and the school was sold for $450 for residential use in 1942. It was resold in 2001 and is currently on the market. The plaque in the front yard states that “Woodville School is an irreplaceable landmark for the Gloucester community.” However, this landmark is for sale, highlighting the possible loss of a vital educational legacy for African-Americans throughout the rural South. Although Rosenwald school structures are still around, they are an architecturally endangered group of buildings. For Gloucester this would be ironic; the United Negro College Fund was formed in 1944 at the Gloucester County home of Robert Russa Moton, former President of Tuskegee Institute.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), one-time president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was well-known for his philanthropic endeavors; he established the Julius Rosenwald Fund in 1917, which donated millions of dollars to black colleges, black hospitals, black YMCAs and YWCAs and other black institutions. The most visible of the endowments was in the creation of the “Rosenwald schools”, 5357 schools established for rural black youth throughout the Southern states at a time when public education was difficult to obtain. The schools were not large and the faculties were small; ultimately these schools employed over 14,000 teachers. The funding was discontinued in 1932; the Fund felt that responsibility for maintaining the schools should be public responsibility.
Source: Virginia Department of Historic Resources www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Gloucester/036-50...
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Irreplaceable Landmark for Sale--Woodville School
[The Woodville School set has 5 images] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.
The Woodville School (1923) in Gloucester County, Virginia is a Rosenwald school and is on the National Register of Historic Places, listed February 11, 2002 with ID reference #04000042. It was built in 1923 at a cost of $3500 replacing an earlier school for African-Americans. The 3 school districts in the county consolidated, and the school was sold for $450 for residential use in 1942. It was resold in 2001 and is currently on the market. The plaque in the front yard states that “Woodville School is an irreplaceable landmark for the Gloucester community.” However, this landmark is for sale, highlighting the possible loss of a vital educational legacy for African-Americans throughout the rural South. Although Rosenwald school structures are still around, they are an architecturally endangered group of buildings. For Gloucester this would be ironic; the United Negro College Fund was formed in 1944 at the Gloucester County home of Robert Russa Moton, former President of Tuskegee Institute.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), one-time president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was well-known for his philanthropic endeavors; he established the Julius Rosenwald Fund in 1917, which donated millions of dollars to black colleges, black hospitals, black YMCAs and YWCAs and other black institutions. The most visible of the endowments was in the creation of the “Rosenwald schools”, 5357 schools established for rural black youth throughout the Southern states at a time when public education was difficult to obtain. The schools were not large and the faculties were small; ultimately these schools employed over 14,000 teachers. The funding was discontinued in 1932; the Fund felt that responsibility for maintaining the schools should be public responsibility.
Source: Virginia Department of Historic Resources www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Gloucester/036-50...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License