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| Location | Plant City, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 27°56′33″N82°4′44″W / 27.94250°N 82.07889°W Coordinates: 27°56′33″N82°4′44″W / 27.94250°N 82.07889°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 01001307 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 29, 2001 |
The William Glover Negro School or Glover School was a segregated school for Black children in Bealsville near Plant City, Florida. It is located at 5110 Horton Road. On November 29, 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Bealsville community was established by freed slaves. Prior to 1933 school was held in a church. In 1933, with no funds forthcoming from the School District of Hillsborough County for a school to educate Black children, the community raised $900 to build the William Glover Negro School. In 1940, students sold produce to earn enough money to add a library. [2] [3] In 1947, the school board approved drilling a new well to replace one that was contaminated. [4] In 1954, along with Pinecrest High School and Plant City High School, the school operated an on-campus strawberry canning facility that was open to the public. [5]
Hillsborough County is located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. In the 2020 census, the population was 1,459,762, making it the fourth-most populous county in Florida and the most populous county outside the Miami metropolitan area. A 2021 estimate has the population of Hillsborough County at 1,512,070 people with a yearly growth rate of 1.34%, which itself is greater than the populations of 12 states according to their 2019 population estimates. Its county seat and largest city is Tampa. Hillsborough County is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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