The best-preserved of the early twentieth-century African-American county schools, Mitchell School, is gone. Built about 1919 on what is now Lake Wilson Road, the building was demolished in recent weeks.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, July 2025.
The best-preserved of the early twentieth-century African-American county schools, Mitchell School, is gone. Built about 1919 on what is now Lake Wilson Road, the building was demolished in recent weeks.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, July 2025.
It is unfortunate that this piece of Wilson County history is gone. It saddens me.
Indeed.