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SWEET HOME, TEXAS

Guadalupe County, Central Texas South

One miles W of FM 467
10 Miles S of Seguin on Sweet Home Road
About 3-4 Miles E of New Berlin
Population: 80 (2000)

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History on a Pinhead

Established by emanicipated slaves in the late 1870s.

Little of its early history was recorded but it became known in the early 20th Century for having a vocational school.
Sweet Home TX - Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School
Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
3340 Sweet Home Rd.

Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2011
Historical Marker Text

Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School

Located in southwest Guadalupe County, the Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School served the educational needs of Negro students in Guadalupe County from 1924 until 1962. It was built in part with money from the Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic endeavor developed by Sears, Roebuck Company president Julius Rosenwald, to improve the quality of education for rural citizens through the construction of modern schoolhouses in the early 20th century.

Sweet Home was one of six schools built in Guadalupe County under the Rosenwald school program. Master carpenter Henry Singletary and his assistant, Jesse C. Ussery, completed the schoolhouse in 1925. The total cost of construction was $5,500, of which $1,100 came from the Rosenwald Fund. Known as a four-teacher type school, it boasted four primary classrooms, a kitchen and a library. Additional buildings constructed on the property included a girls' dormitory, an industrial building and a house for the teachers, which also served as the home economics classroom.

Sweet Home served as a county training school, providing education beyond the eighth grade for students from a three-county area. Its primary focus was on modern industrial and agricultural training. By 1935 Sweet Home was an accredited public high school. Its students won many agricultural, athletic and educational honors before it closed in 1962.

The school building, which retains much of its original features and character, continues in use as a center for community activities.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2001
TX - Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School Historical Marker
Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School Historical Marker
Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2011
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Sweet Home TX - Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School water fountain
The old water fountain
Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2011
Sweet Home TX - Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School Natl Register of Historic Places Plaque
Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School
National Register of Historic Places Plaque

Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2011
Sweet Home TX - Church
"The church is still active as the preacher and a friend were working outside the day we stopped in on this little spot in the road."
- William Beauchamp, June 2011 photo
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Sweet Home Texas - Sweet Home Road
Sweet Home Road
Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2011

See also
Sweet Home (Lavaca County)

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Sweet Home, Texas Nearby Towns:
New Berlin | Seguin the county seat
San Antonio
See Guadalupe County, Central Texas South

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