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Earliest Known Public High School for African Americans in Virginia
Petersburg – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state’s mandate. The building had been moved to this site in the 1830s from Bolling Hill, where it had served in the 1820s both as a church and as one of the earliest organized schools for African Americans in Petersburg.
