Category Archives: Schools

Principal’s House and Teacherage-Fountain Inn, South Carolina

The Fountain Inn Principal’s House and Teacherage is a home and teacherage (a home for schoolteachers) located in Greenville County, South Carolina. It is last remaining building of an educational complex built for the Black children of Fountain Inn. The Rosenwald database does not mention how much the building cost. It opened in 1935 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

Hickory Grove School-Sparta, Georgia

The Hickory Grove School was associated with the Hickory Grove Baptist Church. Despite it looking like a Rosenwald, it is not one. Until consolidation, this school was used until 1959 to educate the Black schoolchildren of the area.

More information can be found at this blog.

Jonesboro School-Jonesboro, Georgia

Clayton County

This is a heavily modified Rosenwald school in Jonesboro, Georgia. Built for $5325 in 1931, this served the community as a three-teacher type school. There has been some push from the community to restore the school. Based on what.I could assess, it was not in use.

Hopewell School-Clarks Hill, South Carolina

McCormick County

Built in 1926, the Hopewell School is a one-teacher type Rosenwald School. It was built for $1800. It was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Eleanor Roosevelt School-Warm Springs, Georgia

Built in 1936, the Eleanor Roosevelt School was the last Rosenwald school built. This was four years after the funding had officially stopped, but President Roosevelt had convinced the Rosenwald fund to follow through on a promise to build a school in Warm Springs. It was built as a five-teacher school and served the local community as a school until 1972 when integration officially closed it.

In 2020, the school was purchased by the Williams siblings, Voncher and Debron, through the Georgia’s Trust for Historic Preservation Revolving Fund. You can follow along on the restoration and donate by visiting their site.

Images are from “Builders of goodwill ; the story of the State agents of Negro education in the South, 1910 to 1950” by S. L. Smith

Cusseta Industrial School, Chattahoochee County

Built in 1929, the Cusseta School, as it was known originally, is a two-teacher type school sitting on the edge of town in Cusseta, Georgia. It was built for $2973. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.