Price Public Elementary School

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Price Public Elementary School
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LocationHasson and Spring Sts., Rogersville, Tennessee
Coordinates 36°24′34″N83°0′32″W / 36.40944°N 83.00889°W / 36.40944; -83.00889 Coordinates: 36°24′34″N83°0′32″W / 36.40944°N 83.00889°W / 36.40944; -83.00889
Arealess than one acre
Built1923
NRHP reference No. 88002538 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 10, 1988

Price Public Elementary School, now known as Price Public Community Center and Swift Museum, is a former African-American school in Rogersville, Tennessee. It currently serves as a community center and home of the Swift Museum.

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The site of the school was dedicated to African-American education in 1868, when Alexander Fain, Jordan Netherland, Albert Jones and Nathaniel Mitchell bought the land "for the purpose of building a schoolhouse for the education of colored children." A schoolhouse was built and used until the early 1900s. The current building replaced it in 1922. [2]

Price School operated until 1958, when it closed and its students were transferred to Swift High School, which was converted from a high school to a grade K-12 school. [3] When integration took place in Rogersville, during the 1960s, the city's African-American elementary school students were transferred to Rogersville City School, also a K-8 institution. The Price School building was subsequently used as a cannery, a community center, and a storage building, [2] then was abandoned and became run-down.

The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

The building underwent a restoration beginning in the mid-1990s as a result of cooperative efforts between the town, the local African-American community, the local American Legion Auxiliary, the Chamber of Commerce, the Rogersville Heritage Association, and other civic organizations. [3] The project was aided by a rural development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2] Following restoration, in 2003 the Price Public Community Center opened in the building. [2] The Swift Museum in the center opened to the public in 2008. [4] The community center and museum offer resources for learning and teaching about African-American history and culture. [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "$84,000 grant to fund Price Public School restoration project - Building will become new community center". Rogersville Review. July 24, 2002. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Price Public Community Center & Swift Museum". AT&T Tennessee African-American History Calendar. AT&T. September 2013. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  4. "Swift Museum organizers ready to welcome public". Rogersville Review. February 5, 2008. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2014.

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