Chilton County Training School - Clanton,AL
N 32° 47.717 W 086° 40.965
16S E 529704 N 3628636
Until the mid-1960s the Chilton County Training School was the only facility in the county that provided a secondary education for African-American children.
Waymark Code: WMFZ30
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2012
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The Chilton County Training School (CCTS), now abandoned and overgrown with vegetation, was the only facility in the county that provided a secondary education for Africn-American children until the mid-1960s. In 1924 black landowners donated five acres for the school to the Board of Education who later purchased an additional five acres. A fire in 1949 mostly destroyed the original building, which had been constructed with assistance from the Rosenwald School Fund. The building was rebuilt in 1951 and upgraded in the early 1960s. Students were bussed to the school from elementary schools in Clanton City, Billingsley, Verbenna, Ridersville, Maplesvile, New Convert, Marbury Thorsby and Jemison.
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