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.
Elmore County Training School opened in Wetumpka, Alabama, on September 20, 1926. The first principal was A. R. Mosely. It was the county’s first high school for Black students and the largest Rosenwald built in th county. The school closed in 1963.
After the school closed, the city built a park around the school for the Black citizens of Wetumpka. The school served as a community center and eventually became the Elmore County Black History Museum
The Cairo School served the Cairo Community of Sumner County, Tennessee, for thirty-five years. Opened in 1923, it was built using the one-room/one-teacher Rosenwald school plan. Students attended the school up to eighth grade.
The community raised $700 for the school’s construction, while the Rosenwald fund provided $500. The Tennessee public school fund matched the community’s contribution and gave $700.
It was one of seven schools built in the county. It is one of two extant schools in the community, and both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Long Ridge Community in Mars Hill, North Carolina, is a historic Black community in Madison County. In 1928, the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School was built. The two-room schoolhouse was built at the cost of $2,093.
If you want to know more about the school, its trustees built an incredible website documenting its history and published a book. I highly recommend visiting to see the great work they’ve done.
