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Historical Highway MarkersAugusta County Training SchoolW-231
A rural African-American school stood here by 1874. In 1927 a two-room elementary school serving the Cedar Green and Smokey Row communities was built. The Augusta County Training School (Cedar Green School), the county's first black consolidated school, opened here in 1938. Community members assisted to construct this frame structure, featuring a central auditorium, a common design provided by the Virginia Department of Education. Between 250 to 320 students, grades one through nine, attended class here from across the county. Augusta County school integration in 1966 closed the school and the American Legion purchased the building.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Augusta County School Term Records, Augusta County, Virginia, 1927-1966; Augusta County Training School, National Register of Historic Places Archives File (07-755); Jedediah Hotchkiss, Historical Atlas of Augusta County, Virginia: Maps from Original Surveys (Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1980), 84; Public Schools in Augusta County Multiple Property Nomination, National Register of Historic Places Archives File (07-1175); Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 45Record of Public Schools of Augusta County, School Term for Year 1874, Augusta County School System. |