Friday, January 8, 2016

Alapaha Colored School, Alapaha, GA


 (Alapaha Colored School
From 1924 until 1954, the Alapaha Colored School was the only school for black children in the
northern part of Berrien County.
The land where the school sits, now restored, and on the National Register of Historic Places, was originally conveyed from L. D. Harper, Grantor, to to the Alapaha Colored School, N. O. Bridges, T. H. Smith, and B. I. Shipman, Grantees, trustees of said school, November ...8, 1924.
It was a wood-framed building, two-story building, built in 1924, and consisted of four classrooms.) (Description borrowed from Berrien Historical Foundation, with permission)
Clinton M Bailey

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