Wilson County Training School

The Rosenwald Fund's own file card shows who paid. Two buildings here, established in 1923-24 and 1928-29, cost $11,700 together. The Rosenwald Fund gave $1,200 and the Black community raised $1,100, while white contributors gave $5,000 and public funds covered $4,400. The fund also added $120 library grants for each of the elementary and high schools. The card, held in Fisk University's Rosenwald archive, carries a handwritten note about a picture of Julius Rosenwald at the school.

What the plaque says

Wilson County Training School Wilson County Training School for African-American students operated on this site from 1923 to 1969. The Rosenwald buildings included a 1923 elementary school and a 1928 high school. In the 1950s the high school was replaced and the elementary school was remodeled. The last high school class graduated in 1969, and the building was demolished in 2000. The elementary school is now the Market Street Community Center.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wynnewood State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A National Historic Landmark log inn at the Bledsoe's Lick springs, beside a Mississippian mound center and tied to the domestic slave trade.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 18 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Stones River National Battlefield — 24 mi
  The Murfreesboro battlefield of December 1862, with a national cemetery built by Black soldiers, a Trail of Tears route and the story of the freedmen's settlement called Cemetery.
• Red Boiling Springs — 33 mi
  A Macon County spa town built around red sulphur springs, with five kinds of mineral water, red-painted pumps and the surviving hotels of a resort that once held more than a dozen.

More markers nearby

• Pickett Chapel / Civil Rights — 0.2 mi
• Lebanon Post Office — 0.3 mi
• Battle of Lebanon — 0.4 mi
• Wilson County Courthouses — 0.4 mi