The Cross Roads School is a Rosenwald school built just outside of Dixie, Georgia in Brooks County. It was built as a two-teacher plan school in 1927. The school was in use until 1959.
In 2025, the school was listed on the Georgia Trust’s Places in Peril. There is a commitment from the school’s alumni and the local community to restore the schoolhouse into a community center.
The Buck Creek School is a one-teacher schoolhouse near Finchville, Kentucky, in Shelby County. It was built for $1800. Completed in 1920, it was used until 1957. It was converted to a residence in 1959. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Caney Fork School, also known as the Maynard Colored School, was completed in 1922. The one-teacher type school was constructed for $2,000. The Rosenwald Fund provided $500, and the local community funded the rest. The school was used until 1933, when the county consolidated all Black schools into one school.
In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Oconee County, South Carolina, is the Tamassee DAR School. Like Rosenwald Schools, the school was founded to provide education to rural schoolchildren. Started in 1919, the school primarily provided an education to local white children. The school initially operated as a boarding school for girls and a day school for boys. Later, boys were allowed to board on the campus. In addition to getting an education, students learned about citizenship. It is one of two DAR-owned schools in the country, the other being the Kate Duncan Smith School in Grant, Alabama.
Additionally, Temassee was the site of the first “Opportunity School.” An initiative that began in 1921 focused on adult education and literacy for employees of local textile mills. The school focused on developing basic reading and math skills while also educating participants on health habits and civic responsibility.
Buildings are named to recognize important women within the DAR or states where the statewide DAR chapters gave generously to support the founding and building of the school. The school was intentionally frugal by using wood from the local forests and leftover blue granite from the incomplete Stumptown Tunnel. Most buildings were constructed in the 1940s. The Tamassee Post Office was not an original building and was relocated to the campus.
Although the school no longer offers a primary education, it remains active by providing services to local children in need and daycare. Additionally, they host summer camps for local children.
The school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Glynn Academy, founded on February 1, 1788, is the second oldest high school in Georgia and the fifth oldest in the U.S. Originally serving all grade levels, its first recorded graduating class in 1888 included four girls and two boys. The school’s roots trace back to Georgia’s 1777 constitution, which envisioned a public education system.
The original Glynn Academy building, now called Alumni Hall, was built in 1840 on Hillsborough Square and is the oldest wooden schoolhouse in Georgia. It is adjacent to the still-active Glynn Academy. It served as Brunswick’s only public school building for over 50 years and also hosted Superior Court sessions after being moved to Sterling in 1915, where it served as a school for Glynn County’s Black schoolchildren. It was returned to its original site in 2008. Today, it is the only surviving antebellum structure in Glynn County and the second-oldest wooden schoolhouse in the nation.
Northwest of Griffin, Georgia, is a school that is one of the remaining reminders of a town known as Vineyard, Georgia. The Vineyard School was built in 1930 and used as a school until the 1960s. It then served as a cooperative education center for Spalding County. In recent years, it was home to the Beacon Voices of Christ Outreach Ministries. Currently, it does not appear that the building is being used.
