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Supervisors to vote
on Scrabble School
By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock N» w s Staff Writer
The Rappahannock Couiity Board of Superv isors is scheduled to vote Monday on a resolution to proceed with transforming the former Scrabble School into a senior center and heritage center for black history.
County Administrator John McCarthy said funds for the project’s full $450,000 cost are in place. The major boon was a $200,000 grant the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation received in November from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.
The resolution the supervisors will look at Monday is to hire Craig Barton as the project’s architect and proceed with construction.
Barton is a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and has already prepared designs and plans for the project for the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation.
Construction will start in the spring or summer and should take four to six months, McCarthy said. By this time next year, the renovated Scrabble School should be ready.
The Scrabble School project has two main goals: preserve and educate people about the historic school for black children and provide more social space for Rappahannock’s senior citizens.
The county's current senior center is housed in rented space on Mount Salem Avenue in the Town of Washington and can only accommodate up to 30 people. A new center at Scrabble School will be able to serve as many as 55 seniors.
The heritage center aspect of the school will educate people about how black children were schooled during segregation days. From 1921 until segregation ended in 196S, Scrabble School was the place where black children in Rappahannock County went to school.
The county is contributing some $70,000 to the Scrabble School project, McCarthy said. The money will pay for the site’s well, drain field and other costs for site preparation.
For more information about the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation, visit www.scrabbleschool.org.
E-mail the reporter at kallen@tirnespapers.eom.
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