The Hiram Rosenwald School-GHS-110-1, Paulding Co.,Georgia
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N 33° 52.888 W 084° 45.590
16S E 707181 N 3751271
Located at 614 Hiram-Douglasville Hwy North of Dallas
Waymark Code: WM2MW3
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/23/2007
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Text:
In 1912 Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck and Company, established the Rosenwald Fund to assist in community school construction of public schools for African-American students in the South. The Julius Rosenwald Fund assisted local communities who raised additional funds. By the 1930's one in every five rural southern schools for blacks had been constructed with aid from the Rosenwald Fund, a total of nearly five thousand schools throughout the South. The Hiram Rosenwald school opened in 1930 as the Hiram Colored School. It was the only Rosenwald school in Paulding County and, at that time, the only African-American school with a library in the county. The school operated from 1930 until 1955.
Erected by the Georgia Historical Society, U.N.I.T.E., and the Hiram Rosenwald School Preservation Committee
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 110-1
Date: 2005.12
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society, U.N.I.T.E., & The Hiram Rosenwald School Preservation Committee
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