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Historical Marker
Text:
SITE OF SHILOH
SCHOOL
The newly freed
African Americans of the Shiloh Community established a school for
their children shortly after the Civil
War. The one-room building was demolished in the late 1800's and
classes were held at the Shiloh Baptist Church. With financial assistance
from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a new two-room school was erected
in 1920. It was replaced by a large brick building in the 1930's.
The High School was closed in 1949; the end of segregation closed
the rest of the Shiloh School in 1966. Shiloh graduates became contributing
citizens in Texas and the nation. Long vacant, the school building
was later used to store chemicals for a plastics company, and burned
in 1993. |
What
remains of Shiloh School today
Photo courtesy Maryanne
Gobble, December 2010 |
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