Hiram Rosenwald School & Museum
732 Hiram Douglasville Highway, Hiram, Ga. 30141

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In 1912, Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., established the Rosenwald Fund to assist in community construction of public schools for African-American students in the South by assisting local construction projects that had raised additional funds.

 

By the 1930s, one in every five rural southern schools for African-Americans had been constructed with aid from Rosenwald Fund, a total of nearly 5,000 schools.

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The Hiram Rosenwald School opened in 1930 as the Hiram Colored School. It was the only Rosenwald School in Paulding County and at that time the only African-American school with a library in the County. The school operated from 1930 until 1955.

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The Georgia historical marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the Hiram Rosenwald School Preservation Committee in 2007.

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For more information contact the Hiram Rosenwald School Preservation Committee through Joan Battle at (770) 943-7473 or by mail:  Attn: Vivian Anderson; P.O. Box 1865; Hiram, GA 30141