Mt. Nebo Elementary School

Mt. Nebo's walls were paid for by many hands. The Monroe Free Press reports that construction combined money from the Rosenwald Fund, the local Black community, the white community and school boards, with Mt. Nebo Baptist Church leading local fundraising. The building had four classrooms, and two classes often shared one. Early student Oscar Augurson recalled, "It was congested but it worked." Students used secondhand textbooks passed down from white schools. The Rosenwald Fund helped build 5,388 schools in 15 states. The marker here was the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation's first for a Rosenwald school.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 1.4 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 3.6 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 4.2 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.7 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Fort Miro — 1.9 mi
• Mr. Jack Hayes / Mrs. Ann Stapp Hayes — 1.9 mi
• Ouachita Parish High School — 1.9 mi
• Prairie des Canots Seat of Justice — 2.0 mi