The funding for this exhibit was made possible largely through grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Jesse & Rose Loeb Foundation, The Northern Piedmont Community Foundation and individual donations.
Funding was also made possible by private donations from the community and by the following:
The Jesse & Rose Loeb Foundation
Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation
Marietta M. & Samuel Tate Morgan Jr. Foundation of Richmond
Dowager Fund of the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation
M. Meade Palmer Memorial Endowed Fund of the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation
Rappahannock County
Geospatial Class, Rappahannock County High School
Rappahannock County League for Environmental Protection
Rappahannock National Bank
The Alice T. Rosenwald Fund of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation
The Scrabble School Grand Opening has been rescheduled for March 6, 2010, from 1-3 PM.
The Scrabble School Preservation Foundation
is very pleased to announce the Grand Opening of the
Rappahannock (Virginia) African-American Heritage Center at Scrabble School,
Saturday, March 6, from 1-3 p.m.
The public is invited to view the new exhibit, as well as see the school's transformation
as the Rappahannock Senior Center at Scrabble School.
Admission is free. Refreshments will be served.
Scrabble School is located at 111 Scrabble Road, Castleton, VA.
Parking and shuttle service will be available at Mount Lebanon Baptist Church,
at the corner of Route 522, Sperryville Pike and Scrabble Road.
(6.6 miles south of Sperryville and 12.5 miles north of Culpeper).
The exhibit will tell the story of this historic Rosenwald School in Rappahannock County within the context of the county's African-American community, as well as its national historical relevance to the education of African Americans throughout the South during the Jim Crow era and its architectural importance as one of the few Rosenwald Schools restored. The exhibit will have an interactive multimedia element featuring first-person accounts of Scrabble School and life in Rappahannock County during most of the period the school operated (1921-1968). The interactive portion will also be accessible online at www.scrabbleschool.org.
In conjunction with this opening, The Rappahannock Senior Center at Scrabble School will hold an appreciation open house. The Heritage Center and the Senior Center are co-tenets of the renovated school building. Approved by the Board of Supervisors, this county owned building is one of the few Rosenwald Schools in the country that has been renovated and reused for the benefit of the community.
The exhibit was designed by Rowen Barton Studio of Charlottesville. This firm was the architect for the renovation of the school, which officially opened on May 2, 2009.
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