aiming to preserve the history of a building that educated hundreds of Black children, both enslaved and free, from 1760 to 1774. The schoolhouse is expected to open to the public in 2025.
The historic building in Colonial Williamsburg will open its doors in the spring of 2025 Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the United States is ...
The building is thought to have been a schoolhouse in 1865, but there is little documentation of its early history. Physical alterations through the years have eradicated almost all of its ...