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Grant School

One-Room Schoolhouse

Location:

• 29th and Nebraska
• Hoyles 1892 City Directory:  29th and Nebraska Ave.

Developers of this black community of the city were the Hogg Brothers.  The Jerusalem Baptist Church and one grocery store were the center of the area.  Anyone living in that area (according to the racial restriction in their covenant) was that one member of the family be of black descent.  Loren L. Taylor

School was probably named for Bishop Abraham Grant.

Architectural Blue Prints and/or Plot Plan of School Building

SUMMARY

1910 - August 15: Building at "Hoggstown" (vicinity of Kensington Park) rented for $100 pear year and repairs. Sometimes location given as 29th and State or 29th and Nebraska.

1911 - Grant School - located on Nebraska Avenue, between 29th and 30th Street (25th annual report) - enrollment 25. E. W. Thompson, first teacher.

1915 - No more references to school after this year.

1916 - School closed and building torn down to make room for Kensington Park.

PRINCIPALS

1910-11 - E. W. Thompson / 1911-13 - Leota Wilson; 1913-16 - Mary Green

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History Site created on December 02, 2002
Page last updated: 05-Jan-2009