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Plans for the the project were hatched in the mid-90s by the late Frank Warner, a Rappahannock resident and alumnus of the Scrabble SchooL Warner died in 2003, before he could see his dreams realized, but his wife, Dorothy Warner; and Lander took hold of the reigns.
“I am ecstatic,” Dorothy said. She is now treasurer of the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation. “1 really never thought wed get to it.”
The project calls for restoration of the schoolhouse, which will be converted into a senior citizen center to serve the needs of elderly in Rappahannock County. Once refurbished, the building will look much like it did when schoolchildren sat inside its walls.
The two acres the school sits on will be landscaped, walking trails added, and a garden, to be cared for by the Farm-to-Table program at the county public schools, is also slated to go in.
The refurbished building will also serve to preserve and celebrate African-American history in Rappahannock County.
“It’s been a long process,” Amy Silver-O’Leary, development coordinator for the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation, said.
Silver-O’Leary, a part-time and the only paid employee with the foundation, came on board about three years ago. She said the foundation was denied a large grant this post
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