*Subject:* [INFLOYD] Southern Indiana Genealogical Society October Meeting
-Oct 7 at 7:00 p.m. - Division Street School
*Date:* Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:43:49 -0500
Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Topic: Division Street School
Presented by: Victor Megenity - Victor has been a history teacher at
Scribner Junior High School, and is also involved in researching local black
heritage.
Location: Division St. School,1803 Conservative Street, New Albany. (Floyd
County, Indiana)
Public is invited to attend.
Division Street School
It opened here 1885.
An 1869 Indiana law had
mandated education of colored children, with separate enumeration and
separate schools supportedwith tax revenue within the common school system.
Improvements and repairs were made over the years. The still-segregated
school closed 1946.
project of the Friends and New Albany/Floyd County School Corporation.
Building listed in National
Register of Historic Places 2002.