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Smithfield planning to restore rare Freedman's School

This is one of few such schools left standing in America. It's in Smithfield and was built to educate newly-freed Black Americans after the Civil War. Smithfield plans to restore it and use it as an educational tool once again.
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This is one of few such schools left standing in America. It's in Smithfield and was built to educate newly-freed Black Americans after the Civil War. Smithfield plans to restore it and use it as an educational tool once again.

Web Editor : Sydney Franklin
Photographer : Robert Meikle
Reporter : Scott Mason
Posted 2021-09-13T18:06:00-0400 - Updated 2021-10-06T09:10:01-0400