(Former) Atkins High School
Named for prominent local African-American education pioneer, Dr. Simon Green Atkins, Atkins High School was designed by Harold Macklin in the Classical Revival style and constructed 1930-1931. Atkins was the first school in Winston-Salem built as a high school to serve Africans Americans. Constructed with the assistance of the Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic organization devoted to building schools for African-Americans. Atkins marked the use of the Rosenwald funds for an urban high school in North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Marker is on Cameron Avenue 0.1 miles north of East 12th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
