HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Hopewell School (Cedar Creek, Texas)
OR:
Hopewell School (Cedar Creek, Texas) on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Hopewell School, also known as the Hopewell-Rosenwald School, is a former
African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
school in
Cedar Creek, Texas Cedar Creek is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States, located 11 miles (18 km) west of Bastrop at the intersection of State Highway 21 and Farm to Market Road 535., retrieved 2008-12-20 Cedar Creek has a post ...
, that was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on July 15, 2015. The school was built in 1921–1922 with assistance from the
Rosenwald Fund The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind." Rosenwald became part-owner of S ...
. The school opened in 1922 and closed in the late 1950s. The school was initially funded by a monetary and a land grant from Martin and Sophia MacDonald of Bastrop County and the Rosenwald Fund. It was built by local residents to educate young African American children during the early to mid 1900s, a time of
racial segregation in the United States In the United States, racial segregation is the systematic separation of facilities and services such as Housing in the United States, housing, Healthcare in the United States, healthcare, Education in the United States, education, Employment in ...
.


Restoration

After the school closed, the building fell into disrepair. In 2015,
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is an electric utility cooperative headquartered in Bastrop, Texas. Founded in 1939, Bluebonnet is one of Texas’ oldest electric cooperative A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with t ...
awarded a $50,000 capital grant to the Hopewell-Rosenwald Community School Project to help convert the building into a community center. Workers from American YouthWorks will help with the repairs.Gamino, Denise. "Bluebonnet grants $1.2 million to 38 area nonprofits".''Texas Co-op Power'', Jan 2016, p20.


See also

*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Bastrop County, Texas This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bastrop County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas. There a ...


References


External links

*http://rosenwaldfilm.org/rosenwald/restoration/
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Rosenwald schools in Texas School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas School buildings completed in 1922 Buildings and structures in Bastrop County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas 1922 establishments in Texas {{Texas-NRHP-stub