Built between 1912 and 1937, Rosenwald Schools were a network of nearly 5,000 schoolhouses created to get Black children in the segregated South access to an education. Many have been demolished, but thanks to the Heritage Foundation, the last standing Rosenwald School in Williamson County, called the Lee-Buckner School, was moved in February from rural Spring Hill to downtown Franklin. The move will allow the classroom to be historically preserved and made available to the public as a monument to Black education.Â
Best Historic Preservation in Progress
