These three letters were submitted ahead of Tuesday s Leon County workshop, where commissioners take up the future of a historic one-room African American schoolhouse, that community advocates are trying to preserve.
Leon County commissioners opened the door to potentially buying a Thomasville Road property seen as crucial in the efforts to preserve the Lake Hall Schoolhouse.
The push to pay homage to the culture surrounding the oldest of six Reconstruction-era African American schoolhouses in the state has hit a snag, making it unlikely it is restored and preserved as a historic exhibit and park.
African American one-room schoolhouse built in 1878 added to local register of historic places
Tallahassee Democrat 12/11/2020 CD Davidson-Hiers, Tallahassee Democrat
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Tallahassee historians are trying to save what used to be a late 1800s African American schoolhouse that still stands on private property and according to local government records, it s one of six remaining in Florida.
The Leon County Commission voted unanimously, with Commissioner Bill Proctor out of chambers, to add the Lake Hall School building to the Local Register of Historic Places.
The commission s vote also changed the zoning of the property where the schoolhouse sits to protect the structure from being knocked down or significantly altered, a spokesperson for the county said.