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Exterior view of Blackwater Colored School prior to new construction
1920/1929 1920 1929
1920
1929
One-room schoolhouse in Sussex County prior to construction of new building.
The school was built in 1892, serving the community to 1925. This school was part of the compound that serves the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church and includes the Wesley Camp Ground and the Wesley Cemetery. In 2010, the school, the last of the remaining school buildings built during the post Civil War era, was used for church functions and as a boarding tent for the Wesley Camp Meetings, according to Preservation Delaware information.
African Americans--Education--DelawareBlacks--Education--DelawareAfrican American schools--DelawareSegregation in education--DelawareAfrican Americans--Education (Elementary)
Delaware School Auxiliary AssociationDu Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954--Contributions in education.
photographic prints
English
still image
1 gelatin silver print : b&w
reformatted digital
Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library
Delaware School Auxiliary Association photographs (Accession 1969.044)
http://findingaids.hagley.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/1969_044.xml
Box 1
[Description and dates], Hagley ID, Box/folder number, Delaware School Auxiliary Association photographs (Accession 1969.044), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807
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