Rock Hill

Jasper County, TX

Status: Located – Needs More Research

Year Established: 1921

Council of Governments: DETCOG

Public History: The schoolhouse was built in the 1920-21 school year through the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which supplied funding and architectural planning for 5,300 African-American schools from1912 to 1932. In 1912, African-American schools, educator Booker T. Washington involved Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., in building schools in the South. Through the fund, Rosenwald gave money, often about one-third of construction costs, and blueprints to communities to build schools. States or school districts paid some construction costs, along with donations from the black community.
Rock Hill is owned by the Rock Hill Baptist Church, where Woods is a deacon. Congregants use the building as a lunch room for their church dinners and have kept it up, adding a few modern conveniences over the years. Through the National Trust for Historic Preservation and with $4 million in grants from Lowe s, 53 Rosenwald schools nationwide have been preserved.

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School: Rock Hill School