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Franklin Warner has embarked on a project to save the Scrabble School with the blessings of the Rappahannock Historical Society.
Enclosed with the current issue of the Rappahannock Historic Times is a one-page insert called “Scrabble Times.” Edited by James Gannon, the insert is an attempt to convince the community that a part of the county’s history, particularly its black history, will be lost if the property is sold to the highest bidder once the county no longer needs it for a dumpster location.
The former two-room school house educated hundreds of black students in first through seventh grades who attended classes there from 1922 to 1967 when it was closed.
The land for the school was donated by Wood Grant, and a grant from Julius Rosenwald was used to pay for construction. Mr. Rosenwald was chairman and president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the Rosenwald Fund was used to build many schools in the south to educate black children including others of the “graded” schools in
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