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Second Union School

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In 2007 the state approved a commemorative highway marker for the school. In addition, the county public school system turned over artifacts to museum organizers from the historic middle school, operated for a period as the segregated Central High School. In 2009 the school received a grant from the
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In 2016, the Virginia Association of Museums recognized the former school as a museum. Second Union (Rosenwald) School Museum and the Goochland County public schools work together by incorporating the museum's history in the Standards of Learning (SOLs). The museum is open to the public.
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Located on the east side of Hadensville Fife Road (Va. Route 606), the school is a one-story, two-room, weather-boarded building with a hipped slate roof. It is set on its original foundation of 18 concrete piers. Built in 1918 according to plans developed by the
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in 2006. Second Union Church, the county, and Goochland County Historical Society committed to restoring the building for use as a museum of black history in the county, with an emphasis on education.
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from Chicago. A total of ten were constructed in the county. The school operated with black teachers and students until 1959, when the public schools in the county were integrated.
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At that time, the county school board sold the building to Second Union Church, which used it for their Sunday school and Bible school classes.
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This is the oldest Rosenwald school in the county that survives nearly unchanged and on its original site. It was listed on the
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to aid in needed repairs and renovation for continued use, part of a two-year round of grants to preserve Rosenwald schools.
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This is one of four schools built in the area for rural black children, under a matching program sponsored by philanthropist
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building for African-American children located near
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Second Union School is located in Virginia
Second Union School is located in the United States
Goochland, Virginia
37°45′52″N 78°3′10″W / 37.76444°N 78.05278°W / 37.76444; -78.05278
MPS
Rosenwald Schools in Virginia MPS
05001583
Rosenwald school
Fife
Goochland County, Virginia
two-teacher school
Tuskegee Institute
Julius Rosenwald
National Register of Historic Places
National Trust for Historic Preservation
First Union School (Crozier, Virginia)


"National Register Information System – (#05001583)"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Virginia Landmarks Register"


"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Second Union School"
Accompanying four photos

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