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07016.ED – Students at Eagle Avenue Elementary School pose in front of the building. Ms. Lucy Saunders is standing in the back in the center, wearing a dark jacket. Eagle Avenue Elementary School which was a Charles Town Area school was replaced with the Charles Town District Colored School in 1929. Eagle Avenue Elementary School was located on the corner of Eagle Avenue and Harewood Avenue/Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. Saunders also taught in the Linwood School in Kearneysville Area School. Eventually, all of the black schools would close when desegregation was accomplished.