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Weston Colored School, also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1882, and is a single-story rubbed red brick building on a fieldstone foundation. It originally measured 22feet by ...
Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in West Virginia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2006, the West Virginia Human Rights Commission investigated charges that a preschool teacher at Peterson-Central Elementary School, used a biracial child as a lesson prop and told schoolmates that the child had been adopted.
The original Lewis County High School was located on Court Street in Weston, West Virginia. The Weston Colored School's one high school student was absorbed into Weston High in 1954 after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Lewis County High moved to its present location, just south of Weston, in 1994.
The following 4 pages use this file: List of African-American historic places in West Virginia; National Register of Historic Places listings in Lewis County, West Virginia; Weston Colored School; User:Doncram/National Register of Historic Places listings in Mountain Lakes region, West Virginia
Wardensville School; Washington Irving High School (West Virginia) Booker T. Washington High School (West Virginia) West Virginia Children's Home; West Virginia Colored Children's Home; Weston Colored School; Wilson School (Mannington, West Virginia) Windy Run Grade School
Pages in category "Schools in Lewis County, West Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. [6] The city was incorporated in 1846. [7]Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.