The clustering of a church, school, and cemetery typically indicated the center of a rural neighborhood and developed from the common practice of holding public schools in churches. This school for African American students began in the church building in 1878, growing into its own structure on the four-acre property in 1894. Around 1923, the school undertook a building program partially funded by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, but with its small classrooms and undersized windows with north-south orientation, the building did not conform to Rosenwald standards. Later investigations revealed that Mississippi’s Rosenwald agent, Bura Hilbun, had embezzled the Rosenwald money for this and other schools. The frame school building ( pictured below), elevated on two-foot concrete piers, has two entrances under a hipped-roofed porch. Folding doors divided the two classrooms and could be opened for larger assemblies. The school closed in 1957. The church, established in 1868, built a new two-towered building in 1955, which was bricked and remodeled in 1977.