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.
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309 Elba Street, gone.
I eulogized 309 Elba Street more than a year ago. It is finally gone.
Photo, Lisa Y. Henderson, February 2025.
County schools, no. 18: Yelverton School, no. 2.
Yelverton School is gone.
One of only three official Rosenwald Schools still more-or-less standing in Wilson County, it was recently demolished.
I understand the building was in bad shape, but wish its owner had reached out beforehand to discuss features from its historic interior that might have been salvaged.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, December 2023.
810 East Green Street, revisited.
Arsonists set fire to two East Wilson houses on 17 August 2022, resulting in the demolition of one. After putting out an early morning blaze at 804 East Vance Street, firefighters were dispatched to 810 East Green, one of an original set of five identical rental houses William Hines built in the mid-1920s. Fire damaged the house extensively, and it had to be torn down.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, August 2022.