28004.SC – Eagle Avenue and Page-Jackson Annex 1942.
28005.SC – SECOND SCHOOL: Second School (Charles Town District Colored School) 1874-1894. The building still stands on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue.
28006.SC – PAGE JACKSON: Page-Jackson High School: 1951-1965: The building still stands and is presently the headquarters for the Jefferson County Board of Education on Mordington Avenue in Charles Town.
28007.SC – FIRE 1966: Eagle Avenue School was destroyed by fire in 1966.
28008.SC – FIRST SCHOOL: First school 1865-1875 (?). This school was located on the corner of Liberty and Samuel Streets where the law office of Morrow and Morrow now stands (as of 2007). ….. Archilles Dixon was one of 540 free blacks in Jefferson County in 1850. He and his wife, Ellen Dixon, owned a house and a blacksmith shop on the corner of Samuel and Liberty Streets in Charles Town. They allowed teacher Annie Dudley to use one room for her classroom. It was called the Liberty Street School and was used between 1867 and 1874, when the county began its own public school education for blacks.
28009.SC – 1929 EAGLE AVE ELEM: Eagle Avenue Elementary School; 1929. Became Eagle Avenue School and Page-Jackson High School from 1938-1951. This school was located on Eagle Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue.
28010.SC – EAGLE AVENUE SCHOOL: Eagle Avenue Elementary School 1894-1929. This school was located on Eagle Avenue.
28011.SC – STORER COLLEGE: Storer College (1867-1955) was one of the first black institutions of higher learning in the South. The college was named after John Storer of Stanford, Maine, who in February 1867, offered to donate $10,000 toward the founding of a Negro school. It is now the Mather Training Center, part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
28012.SC – MECHANICSTOWN: Mechanictosn Black School; 1891-1934; The Mechanicstown Black School still stands in Mechanicstown on route 9 East. When it closed, students transferred to Eagle Avenue School.
28013.SC – HALLTOWN: Halltown Colored School; 1908-1930; This one-room brick school house is located next to the Halltown Memorial Chapel. Teachers included: Mr. Eddie Robinson and Miss Sara Davis.
28014.SC – WOODBURY: Woodburh; 1911-1913; The Woodbury School was located to the west, one-half mile from Leetown on the Leetown-Kearneysville Road. It became a school for black students when white students moved to a new brick school in Leetown.
28015.SC – SHADYSIDE: Shadyside; 1883-1948; The second school for black students in Shepherdstown, Shadyside was a large, frame structure located on west High Street. George Freeman and John W. Harris taught there.
28016.SC – SECOND CHARLES TOWN COLORED SCHOOL: 1867-1894; Mr. Littleton L. Page was teacher and principal at this school which was located on Harewood Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.). He was assisted by Mr. Arthur Irvin and Mr. Philip Jackson.
28017.SC – HARPERS FERRY: The earliest school for black students in the Harpers Ferry district was this house on Ridge Street. The two-room school was built before 1889 and used until 1930. It was sold to Mr. Dennis in 1931.
28018.SC – ZION BAPTIST: Zion Baptist Church; until 1930; The basement of the Zion Baptist Church was used for extra classroom space because of the large enrollment at the Ridge Street School. The church still stands.
28019.SC – MOUNT PLEASANT: Mount Pleasant Colored School; 1908-1936; The school, still standing but uninhabitable in 2001, is located south of Ebeneezer Calvary Church in Mt. Pleasant, north of Summit Point.
28020.SC – MIDDLEWAY: Middleway Black School; 1870-1929; The earliest school in Middleway for black students was south of the town on the road leading to Summit Point opposite the power station. Owned in the 1970’s by Margaret Burns, it was later torn down. In 1908, another school was built on a lot next to where the earlier school was built.
28021.SC – JOHNSONTOWN: Johnsontown Community School; 1876-1933; On April 7, 1876, several acres of land were given to the Board of Education of Charles Town District in order to establish a school house for the purpose of educating the residents of Johnsontown. Teachers included: Mrs. Odetta Berry, Mrs. Dora Robinson, Mrs. Margaret Arnold, Mrs. Emma Laws, and Rev. Jerry Johnson.
28022.SC – GRANDVIEW: Grandview School; 1930’s-1965; Grandview School was first a four-room school, serving Harpers Ferry and Bolivar. Currently, the Board of Education rents it to the Park Service.
28023.SC – OLD SCHOOL: The Old School; 1866-1883; The Old School on Brown’s Alley is the oldest known school for black students in Shepherdstown. This one-room structure was built with bricks from the Armory building in Harpers Ferry. In 2001, it was owned by Asbury Methodist Church and is a family’s residence.
28024.SC – RIPPON: Rippon Colored School; 1900-1939; The Rippon Colored School was located at the fork of the road leading from Rippon to Myerstown. The school was built in 1874 for white students. In 1900 the old school became the Rippon Colored School.
28025.SC – EASTSIDE: Eastside School; 1948-1963; The Eastside Colored School, the third school in Shepherdstown, is being used in 2001 as a daycare center on East German Street.
28026.SC – SKEETERSVILLE
28027.SC – ST. PHILLIPS: St. Phillip’s Parochial and Industrial School was the only known private school for Negroes in Jefferson County. The school, which opened in 1900, was located at St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church on Southwest Street in Charles Town. The school closed in the 1930’s.
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