Historical Marker
Sabine High School
Many, Sabine County · Louisiana
Erected 2021
A Rosenwald school built in 1928, the Sabine Parish Training School, came first. The 1957 buildings replaced it, designed by architects Seymour Van Os and Theodore Flaxman for Black students from kindergarten through twelfth grade in the segregated system. The school's basketball team won a Louisiana state championship in 1947, a decade before the new campus. After desegregation in 1970 the buildings became Many Junior High School, and the school closed in 2001. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 2020, and a Pomeroy Foundation marker followed.
Where it stands
31.57122, -93.47403 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 5.1 miThe 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.
- Los Adaes State Historic Site — 14 miThe Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.
- North Toledo Bend State Park — 15 miA 900-acre park on the Louisiana shore of the 186,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir, with trails, disc golf and cabins, near the flooded sites of Pine Flat and other Sabine Parish communities.
- Red Hills Lake Recreation Area — 22 miA 19-acre Sabine National Forest lake completed by the CCC in 1940 near Milam, a short drive from Toledo Bend Reservoir, with a swimming beach, fishing and camping from May through October.
More markers nearby
- St. John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi
- Baldwin's Store — 0.6 mi
- El Camino Real — 5.1 mi
- Village of Fisher — 5.4 mi