Carter G. Woodson High School

The school took the name of a historian who began as a coal miner. Carter G. Woodson was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, to parents who had been enslaved, and worked in West Virginia mines with little time for school. In 1912 he earned a Harvard doctorate, the second Black American to do so after W. E. B. Du Bois. He co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 and launched Negro History Week in 1926, forerunner of Black History Month.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 18 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Magnolia Square and the Columbia County Courthouse — 23 mi
  The 1906 courthouse and square at the center of a town founded in 1853, where oil came in 1922, Southern Arkansas University grew from a farm school, and Jordan Jameson was burned to death in 1919.

More markers nearby

• Potlikker — 0.6 mi
• Claiborne Parish Court House — 12 mi
• Sheriff Pat Garrett — 12 mi
• Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana — 13 mi