Industrial School for Colored Girls

New Castle County · dedicated 2024 · 1402 Newport Gap Pike, Wilmington

In 1919, the Industrial School for Colored Girls was founded by the Federation of Colored Women’s Club of Delaware for the care and education of African American girls unable to attend the all-white Woodshaven School in Claymont. With donations from T. Coleman du Pont and other prominent citizens, the State purchased the former Grier and Woodward Farms adjacent to the predominantly Black neighborhoods of Liberty and Belvedere, on the current site of Delcastle High School. In 1943 the reform school was renamed the Edwina Kruse School in honor of her role as principal of Howard High School, and remained in operation until 1960.

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