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From February 4, 2023 post.
Sixth Avenue School
The Sixth Avenue School was located at the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Valley Street. The two-story structure opened its doors to area Black American students in 1916. There were classrooms on the first floor and an auditorium on the second floor which served as multiple classrooms as well as a community center.
During the Great Depression, a former wooden frame gymnasium that was no longer needed at Hendersonville High School was dismantled and moved north of the Sixth Avenue School to serve as a high school annex. It was the first Ninth Avenue School, dubbed “the Gym.” The principals of these schools were Rev. John Wesley Neill, W.M. Robinson, Spencer Durante and John Marable.
Photo Credit 6th Avenue School Students – courtesy of the Henderson County Genealogical and Historical Society
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