Eckington School
The Eckington School was built in 1895 as
a frame, one-room school for African American
students from the nearby communities of
Eckington and Poplar Ridge. The school
building is typical of the ungraded schools of
the 19th century that had all grades housed
together in the same room. Such schools were
common in rural communities until the mid-20th century. The Eckington School building
closed in 1941. This structure stands as a rare
example of the nearly vanished one-room
schoolhouse type, illustrating the importance
of education among the rural black community
in the decades after the Civil War.
Marker is on Mt. Pony Road (County Route 658) just west of Blackjack Road (County Route 661), on the left when traveling east.
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