Dunbar Rosenwald School

Dunbar Rosenwald School is a Tennessee historical marker in Loudon County.

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With support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the African American community, and public funds, Dunbar Rosenwald School was built in 1923 at a cost of $5,700. The only Rosenwald school in the county for approximately 258 school-age children countywide in 1930, Dunbar was a community landmark. Keeping with one of the basic Rosenwald Fund objectives, events took place at the school throughout the year. In 1963, with the onset of school desegregation in Loudon, Dunbar closed in 1965. The St. Peter's Lodge #30 F & AM purchased the school building at auction in 1966, and it became known as the Dunbar Community Center.

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1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Loudon, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1924 · Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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