Long High School Site

Front: Long H.S. was completed in 1955 and replaced Coulter Academy as the primary African American H.S. in Cheraw. The school was named in honor of Rev. G.W. Long, Coulter’s President from 1908 until 1943. Mr. Henry L. Marshall was the first principal. The new school was praised as a thoroughly modern facility, with a library, science lab, agriculture, woodworking/masonry workshops, and home economics classrooms. Reverse: Long High played an integral role in the African American Community by providing cultural events and serving as a venue for strategic political planning during the 1960s. It would remain segregated by race from its opening until Chesterfield County complied with federal desegregation requirements in 1970. The last class graduated in 1970 with Mr. Otis L. Ford serving as the principal. The original school was razed in 1999.