Rayville's African American School

The school began with its first teachers holding classes for grades one to six in Macedonia Baptist Church, a five-month term that offered nothing past sixth grade. It grew into a fully accredited high school, and it came to carry the name of its principal, Eula Dunning Britton, who led it from 1924 to 1957. Born near Mangham about 1891 to 1894, she earned a bachelor's degree at Southern University in 1937 and a master's at Atlanta University in 1945, while still running the school. She died on April 16, 1986.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 16 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.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 18 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.
• Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 20 mi
  A cypress lake inside the city limits of Monroe, run by the Fish and Wildlife Service on a 99-year lease, with a boardwalk, a wildlife pier and a planter's house visitor center.
• Masur Museum of Art — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Po' Henry and Tookie — 0.6 mi
• Gene Stewart — 0.8 mi
• Marsden Mounds — 15 mi
• Jerry Cupit — 15 mi