West Pascagoula Colored School
N 30° 23.311 W 088° 37.454
16R E 343950 N 3362956
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Waymark Code: WMJFNZ
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 11/12/2013
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Listed as a Mississippi Landmark
Significance:
With $200 in funding from the Jackson County Board of Supervisors and $500 raised by the community, the West Pascagoula Colored School was constructed in 1921 in the West Indies style. Ms. Ernestine Fountain taught approximately 22 students each year in this one room school house, which was heated by pot-belly stove. The school closed in 1946 and the building was used as a community center, senior citizen center and voting precinct. Situated in a city park, the building has been vacant since being acquired by the city of Gautier in the 1980s.
Threat:
The West Pascagoula Colored School is in remarkably good condition for having been vacant and neglected for over thirty years. The Gautier Historic and Preservation Commission is working with the city of Gautier to raise funds to restore the building for use as a local history museum.
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