Number    00968

Scan Date     7/18/02

Time Period   Built 1923-24

Subject Matter     Marshville & Schools

Location     Union County North Carolina (Marshville)

Description 

Flint Ridge - A Rosenwald School
Part of the funds to build this school came from the Rosenwald Fund program for providing schools for rural blacks.
Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, roebuck and Co., was inspired by the work of Booker T. Washington at Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama and developed a keen interest in education for rural blacks.

 

Photographer (if known) For the Union County Historic Preservation Commission

Notes

This Rosenwald school building plan was known as a "Two-teacher type".  The community raised $700.00, Public funds added $1,765.00 and the Rosenwald fund added $700.00.   The school sat on two acres of land.  This photo shows a side view and perhaps a small portion of the original front.  Some efforts were made around 1992 to preserve this building but those efforts did not succeed.

(information about building plan and funds comes from Fisk University's Rosenwald Database - main site is http://rosenwald.fisk.edu - search only by state and then scroll their excellent list with photos!)

Time period revised, Description updated, Notes added by Patricia Poland, Union County Public Library

Measurements of original photograph

Height  3 1/2"

Width  5"

Type of photograph   Black and White