ROSENWALD SCHOOLS IN NASH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Documented in the Files of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
January 24, 2005
SOURCE: http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/rosenwald/rosenSurvey.htm
The Julius Rosenwald Fund
In the second decade of the twentieth century, Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and a Chicago philanthropist, learned of the inadequate provision of education in the rural South for African Americans. Subsequently, from the late 1910s to the early 1930s, a fund that he established built over 5,300 schools from Maryland to Texas. The fund’s approach was primarily to offer architectural plans and matching grants. More information on these schools can be found at:
SOURCE: http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/ROSENWALD/rosenwald.htm
All of the following schools are for African Americans. In other words, built with Rosenwald Fund monies with designs were influenced by standard Rosenwald school plans.
The following codes apply throughout:
NR = Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
SL = On North Carolina National Register Study List
D = Destroyed
* = file produced after statewide school survey began summer 2002
The Rosenwald Schools in the county are:
Avent School* [eligible for inclusion on the National List of Historic Places]
SR 1403 (12990 NC Coopers-Avent Rd.)
Aventon
Bailey School*
SR 1103 (6390 Lee St.)
Bailey vicinity
Castalia Rosenwald School [eligible for inclusion on the National List of Historic Places]
E side SR 1321, 0.1 mi. N of jct. w/ SR 1328 (10404 Lancaster Store Rd.)
Castalia vicinity
Easonburg School (D)*
SR 1544 (305 S. Halifax Rd.)
Little Easonburg
Evans School*
SR 1417 (3828 Red Rd.)
Nashville vicinity
Jeffrys School [eligible for inclusion on the National List of Historic Places]
W side NC 43 0.8 mi. N of jct. w/ SR 1535 (3052 Benvenue Rd.)
Dortches vicinity
Lewis Ricks School (D)*
Corner SR 1604 (Hunter Hill Rd.) & SR 1603 (Old Carriage Rd.)
Red Oak vicinity
Little Raleigh School (D)*
1108 Luper St.
Rocky Mount
Macklin School (D)*
SR 1544 (S. Halifax Rd.)
Rocky Mount vicinity
Middlesex School (D)*
S. Elm St.
Middlesex
Morgan School (SL)* [on the National Register of Historic Places]
NE corner jct. SR 1132 (Mt. Pleasant Rd.) & SR 1106 (Winters Rd.)
In the Bailey vicinty
Nashville School (Nash County Training) (D)*
323 E. 6th St.
Nashville
Rawlins School (D)*
SR 1524 (7921 Red Oak-Battleboro Rd.)
Drake
Spring Hope School (D)*
NC 581, 1 mi. S of Spring Hope
Spring Hope vicinity
Taybron School (D)*
NC 231
Spring Home vicinity
Taylor-Shiloh School (D)*
Jct. NC 33 & SR 1515 (Shiloh School Rd.)
Whitakers vicinity
Whitakers School*
10065 US 301 North
Whitakers
OTHER NASH COUNTY ROSENWALD SCHOOLS IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ARE:
Avent School, Aventon 10/13/05
Castalia School, Castalia 10/13/05
Jeffreys School, Dortches vicinity 10/13/05
Spring Hope Colored High School Teacherage, Spring Hope 01/14/99