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.
Historic Marker reads: Division Street School
Because of the growing number of African-American school-age children the
New Albany School Board
authorized a new elementary school for them June 1884. It opened here 1885.
An 1869 Indiana law had
mandated education of colored children, with separate enumeration and
separate schools supported
with tax revenue within the common school system.
Improvements and repairs were made over the years. The still-segregated
school closed 1946. Friends
of Division Street School was organized 1999 for restoration of the
building. Restoration has been a joint
project of the Friends and New Albany/Floyd County School Corporation.
Building listed in National
Register of Historic Places 2002.