![]() ![]() Through the Pine Grove Rosenwald Restoration Project citizens will become educated about the significance of the school and the need to preserve our area’s treasures. The Richland County Recreation Commission will use the restoration of the Pine Grove School as an opportunity to educate the residents of Richland County about the historic integrity of our area and the need to preserve and acknowledge the historic landmarks that we have. In 2009, the school received its National Register designation and just recently received a Historic Preservation Award from the Historic Columbia Foundation. Through funding secured from the South Carolina Community Competitive Grant Program, Richland County Conservation Commission, and the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Preservation Fund through the Richland County Recreation Foundation, the Commission has worked diligently to restore the school to its original configuration and successfully created a historic community gathering place. Therefore, they had to attend school in dilapidated structures with few amenities other than makeshift desks and benches.īuilt in 1923, Pine Grove School is the last remaining Rosenwald School in Richland County. Most southern counties provided few or no public school building for African American students. The goal of the project was to provide black children with safe, purpose-built, school buildings. The Rosenwald School Project was, at the time, the country’s best answer to improving the poor state of education for blacks in the rural South in the early 1900s. The Pine Grove School is an original Rosenwald School built in 1923. By 1928, one in every five rural schools for black students in the South was a Rosenwald school, and these schools housed one third of the The Rosenwald rural school building program which began in 1912 was a major effort to improve the quality of public education for African Americans in the early 20th-century South. ![]()
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