Save Black Spaces!
Shotgun House Legacy Site
Join with Triad Cultural Arts to Save Our History!
Help us lift the historic story of Happy Hill, Winston-Salem’s first planned African American community, out of obscurity and herald the architecturally significant shotgun house as an iconic symbol of African American freedom! Let’s repurpose their use for education and the perpetuation of African American history and culture for generations to come!
Triad Cultural Arts, Inc. received an American Rescue Plan Humanities Grant from North Carolina Humanities, www.nchumanities.org. Funding for this grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act economic stabilization plan.
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The Oak Grove School
Oak Grove School
A Property of the Gateway YWCA
Oak Grove School, 2637 Oak Grove Circle, Winston-Salem
ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Oak Grove School was built in 1910 and is significant for its association with Black history and education in Forsyth County. The School served local Black children living in the Washington Town community near Bethania from c.1910-1950. During the 1910s, over 80% of North Carolina’s Black students attended school in one of 1,934 one-room schools. Oak Grove is the only known extant example of Forsyth County’s once common, one-room Black schoolhouse, and is the sole link to Washington Town’s thriving community at the turn of the 20th century.
Oak Grove School is a historic one-room school. It is a one-story, gable-front, in weatherboard clad building with a full-width, shed roof porch. The school closed about 1950, and was used as a store. It was restored in 1998 by the Washington Town Community Organization.
A Lovely, Historic Location for Small Meetings and Gatherings
Schedule a Tour or Reserve the School for Your Next Event:
Contact Triad Cultural Arts, 336-757-8556, or email: triadculture9@gmail.com
We're Joining with the African American Heritage Initiative
The City of Winston-Salem’s African American Heritage Initiative is sponsoring a digital archive and is inviting city residents to contribute to it. They are looking for just about anything that can be submitted electronically:
- Photos
- Documents
- Written recollections
- Oral histories
- Other items of historical interest that can be submitted electronically