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Negro School Building (demolished) – Oxford MS

Project type: Schools, Education and Health
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
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Description

PWA Docket No. Miss. 1245-F approved construction of a school building in the city of Oxford to house Oxford’s “Negro Elementary and High School.” The building is no longer extant.

Source notes

Meeting Minutes, Oxford Board of Aldermen. Book 10, including July 5, 1938, August 19, 1938, and October 21, 1938. Retrieved from https://www.oxfordms.net/documents/boards/boa/minutebooks/Book10.pdf.


Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory Database.

Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on February 7, 2014.

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Location Info

Washington Avenue
Oxford, Mississippi 38655

Location notes: Approximate location marker

Coordinates: 34.3713782, -89.5239206

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