Fort Motte Rosenwald School Site

Front: This site was the location of the Fort Motte Rosenwald School, one of two built in Calhoun County between 1924 and 1926. With support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the white and Black communities covered the $3,700 total cost of the two-teacher building. The school was built for African American children in the Fort Motte community. Reverse: At least three previous schools have been located in this general vicinity. The first was an early 1900s public school, which was replaced by the Rosenwald School. The last was Fort Motte Elementary, a brick “separate but equal” school built c.1956 for grades 1-8. A few years after the 1970-71 desegregation of Calhoun Co. schools, the school at this site was closed.