Site of First African American High School in Anderson County

Reed Street High School

After another high school was built, Reed Street High was renamed Perry Elementary School.

Perry Elementary later became known as

Perry Child Development Center.

This memorial is dedicated to the students teachers and principals who were a part of these ...

African American School Site

The one-room frame public school organized shortly after the Civil War, housed 76 students and 1 teacher by 1870. The school term lasted 1 month and 10 days. Jane Harris Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley centers for working girls, ...