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The Colored School, which is currently undergoing restoration,
was the first African American school to be publicly
funded in the county. The school was a small, two room
building that still used wood stoves for heating even
in the 1940’s, and didn’t get running water
until 1950. When parent’s asked for electricity
from the board of education, the board basically said
that they didn’t feel like spending money on a
tiny “country school”. The school was built
in the 1880’s, and was in service until the 1953.
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