Long Description:"The Thomaston Colored Institute, also known as the Thomaston
Academy, is a historic African American school building in the town
of Thomaston, Alabama, United States. This two-story brick building
was completed in May 1910 as a private school by an African
American religious group, the West Alabama Primitive Baptist
Association.
The school served a historic African American neighborhood in
Thomaston, as the only real educational opportunity for the area’s
African American population. This building has been abandoned since
the 1970s, and has suffered from benign neglect. It was included on
the Alabama Historical Commission's Places in Peril listing in
2000, the same year that it was placed on the National Register of
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