Hale's Chapel Church ~ Gate City, Virginia.
N 36° 38.581 W 082° 35.215
17S E 358139 N 4056445
Now photo of Hale's Chapel Church building that was adjacent the Prospect School taken from Manville road as seen in the old photo.
Waymark Code: WM1215C
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 01/29/2020
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Then photo includes the Prospect school that was Scott County’s only African-American school. It was located at the top of the hill on Manville Road in Gate City, in the communities known locally as Sticktown and Trot. The historic school closed because of integration in 1964.
“Prospect School is the name we bear ... her cause we each embrace. Each Prospect Son and Daughter ... should feel the Prospect place.” — from the Prospect School Pledge by Principal Mary Wolfe Coley, 1940.
Year photo was taken: 1920
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