George Washington Carver High School

The plaque ends with the alumni, and they are why it exists. Navasota's Carver graduated its last class in 1968; the George Washington Carver Alumni Association, a nonprofit that holds a yearly reunion and awards memorial scholarships, brought the marker home. Patrick Gilbert worked with the Texas Historical Commission from 2016, and the Navasota Examiner reported its dedication during the June 2019 reunion weekend at the school's own address. A 2022 Examiner account adds that the founder, Jerry Reinhardt, also kept a silversmith shop in the neighborhood.

What the plaque says

George Washington Carver High School Around 1865, reverend J.J. Reinhart established the Navasota Colored School for African American students. After several buildings were destroyed by fire, a brick building was built in 1942. A few years later, the school became officially known as George Washington Carver High School. After Navasota High School fully integrated in 1968, the building served as an elementary and later middle school until 1974. In August 1996, the building reopened as the Carver Learning Center for Alternative Education. In 2008, the school district deeded the building to the school's alumni association. It now serves as the Carver Community Center for tutorials, summer camps, and other events. (2017)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Navasota — 1.0 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 5.6 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 5.6 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.
• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 9.4 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.

More markers nearby

• James H. Washington — steps away
• Freedman Town — 0.3 mi
• Home of Lt. Gov. George D. Neal — 0.7 mi
• First Baptist Church of Navasota — 0.9 mi