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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.