Negro School – Lamont FL

City:
Jefferson County, FL

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included “five two-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Turkey Scratch, Bunker Hill, Lightsey, and Lamont.”

The locations and status of this building are unknown to Living New Deal.

Source notes

"History of Jefferson County," by Jerrell H. Shatner (found at Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library, Tallahassee, FL), pg. 529

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 3, 2018.

Location Info


Turkey Scratch, FL Jefferson County

Location notes: Approx. location marker

Coordinates: 30.424377, -83.780320

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