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Title	Old Hohenwald Colored School
Image Rights	Digital image © 2008, Tennessee State Library & Archives. All rights reserved.
Copyright	While TSLA houses an item, it does not necessarily hold the copyright on the item, nor may it be able to determine if the item is still protected under current copyright law. Users are solely responsible for determining the existence of such instances and for obtaining any other permissions and paying associated fees that may be necessary for the intended use.
Subjects - TGM	Schools Educational facilities
Subjects - LCSH	Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; African Americans - Tennessee
Description	Front and side views of the Hohenwald Colored School in Lewis County. Originally a church, the school has a bell tower, three long windows, and a front door.
Place	Lewis County (Tenn.)
Date	1929
Collection name	State Board of Education Records, 1815-1958
Series	Photographs
Historical note	This simple one-room wooden building was originally a church and was used as a school beginning in the early 1920s. Its first teacher was Ms. Ella Gray Allison, who continued teaching for over forty years. It was replaced by a "Rosenwald school" in 1929.
Accession number	RG 91
Owning Institution	Tennessee State Library & Archives
ID#	33339
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Digital type	IMAGE
Digital format	TIFF
Collection finding aid	http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/state/recordgroups/findingaids/rg91.pdf