Wheeler School

Wheeler School is a Tennessee historical marker in DeKalb County.

DeKalb Co, south side of US 70,(State Route 26) at intersection w/Goose Creek Road near Alexandria. The marker is approx. 1.6 miles north of site

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Wheeler School for Blacks was established during the Reconstruction period in Wilson County on land donated by Captain J. D. Wheeler, formerly of the 5th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA. Renowned Black educator W.E.B. DuBois taught at the school during the summers of 1886 and 1887. the original log building was replaced with the existing structure in the late 1890s.

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1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Kentucky and Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Wheeler School

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