The Oak Grove School is a historic
Rosenwald School building in rural
Hale County Hale County is the name of two counties in the United States:
* Hale County, Alabama
*Hale County, Texas
Hale County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 32,522. The county seat is Plainview ...
,
Alabama
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, anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama"
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, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
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, United States. It was built to the designs of Samuel Smith in 1925 to serve the local
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 ...
community. The money to build the school was provided by the
Julius Rosenwald Fund. The school 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 March 3, 1998, as a part of
.
See also
Historical Marker Database
References
National Register of Historic Places in Hale County, Alabama
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
School buildings completed in 1925
Defunct schools in Alabama
Rosenwald schools in Alabama
Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama
1925 establishments in Alabama
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