Blackwater Colored School

Sussex County · dedicated 2015 · 32137 Powell Farm Road, Frankford

Built in 1892, the Blackwater Colored School is one of the last remaining post-Civil War era colored school buildings in Sussex County. Beginning in the 1920s, schools like Blackwater were replaced by new structures funded by Pierre S. du Pont, who sought to reform the education system in Delaware. The Blackwater Colored School served the community until 1925 when Blackwater 207-C, a DuPont School, was completed. In the years since, the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church community has preserved the building and used it as part of its camp meeting site where it has served as lodging, meeting space, and kitchen for the camp’s members.

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