Old Herod High School to be razed for community center
Courtesy MGN Online
and last updated 2021-01-11 17:52:53-05
Plans are moving forward to demolish the old Herod High School to make way for a new community center, the Abbeville Meridonal reports.
The Vermilion Police Jury, which now owns the property in Abbeville, had accepted a bid from an alumnae of the school but when she was unable to produce the funds jurors sold the property to the second-highest bidder, the newspaper reports.
Herod High was named for the Rev. James A. Herod, a pastor who moved to Vermilion Parish at the end of the 19th century as a missionary. He and his wife started a school for African-American children. The current building is not the first school at that location; it was built in 1955 after the original was torn down, according to a historical account on africanamericanhighschoolsinlouisianabefore1970.com. There still is a school named for Herod in Abbeville; it s James A. Herod Elementary Scho