The Mount Sinai School is a historic

Rosenwald School The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the part ...

in rural Autauga County,

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, northwest of Prattville. The one-story frame building was built in 1919 to the designs of W.A. Hazel to serve the local

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community. The money to build it was provided by the

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. The school was added to the

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on February 2, 2001. It was subsequently listed on the

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on November 29, 2001, as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission.

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National Register of Historic Places in Autauga County, Alabama School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Defunct schools in Alabama School buildings completed in 1919 Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage Rosenwald schools in Alabama 1919 establishments in Alabama Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama {{Alabama-NRHP-stub

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