Betcha didn't know:
The LaGrange Training School had three rooms. Funding from philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and a $1,000 matching grant from local citizens paid for its construction in 1920-1921. The school served grades one through eight until the 1964 Civil Rights Act integrated Kentucky schools; until the 1940s, it also included secondary grades. Starting that decade, those students were bussed to Lincoln Institute in Shelby County.
In all, 158 Rosenwald Schools were built in Kentucky using the same funding model. The schools were located in more than half of the Commonwealth’s counties and often replaced dilapidated and out-of-date community schools or former Freedman’s Bureau locations. They provided vital community, education and training space for Americans during the Jim Crow era.
A historic marker exists here, but the school is long gone.
Cache contains a vinyl logbook which will require tweezers and is best signed with a sharpie-type pen. Ballpoints or pens or pencils will leave dents only. Dents are accepted. Please use initials to conserve log space. Do NOT pull the cap off. Flip it open and use tweezers to remove log, sign, and replace. Snap the cap shut for the next cacher.