Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #77 from Segregated Schools on Delmarva

State Delaware
County Sussex County
School Name Georgetown Colored School
Location Georgetown
Date Opened Open by 1867
Current Status Replaced by DuPont construction in the 1920s
Source Bradley Skelcher, African American Education in Delaware (Wilmington: Delaware Heritage Press, 1999), 18-19.
Additional Information One-room, one story school. A white mob attacked the teacher's boarding house in June of 1867 which lead to the teacher to quit, temporarily leaving the Georgetown School without a teacher.

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