Carver-Hill School

Carver-Hill School
Location
Crestview
,
Okaloosa County
,
Florida

United States
Information
School typePublic, Segregated public school
School boardOkaloosa District Schools
School districtOkaloosa County School District
Grades1–12
Athletics conferenceFIAA

Carver-Hill School[1] was a school for African Americans in Okaloosa County, Florida. It was the only school for African Americans in the county.[2] Its former lunchroom housed the Carver-Hill Museum until a museum building was constructed.

The school colors were blue and white and its mascot was the panther.[3]

A school for African Americans was built in Crestview in 1926.[3] The school received support from Julius Rosenwald's Rosenwald School fund.[4] It became known as the Crestview Colored School. A new school was eventually built and named for George Washington Carver. The name of Reverend Edwin Hill was eventually added.[5] The school was closed in 1965. In 1969, a museum was established. In 1975, the museum was opened on land loaned by the city, and in 1979 the city formalized the museum.[6]

The State of Florida's archives include a photograph of a Carver-Hill student at John C. Beasley State Park in Fort Walton Beach.[7]

  1. ^ "Sports History". www.carverhillmemorialandhistoricalsocietyinc.org.
  2. ^ Osbourne, Heather. "The Carver-Hill Museum tells stories of Okaloosa's segregated black students". Northwest Florida Daily News.
  3. ^ a b Freeman, Danielle. "Carver-Hill High School And The Early Education Of Afro-Americans in Crestview". www.wuwf.org.
  4. ^ Spann, Ann. "10 things you didn't know about Crestview". Crestview News Bulletin.
  5. ^ "Carver-Hill". www.carverhillmemorialandhistoricalsocietyinc.org.
  6. ^ Jones, Mary V. (February 17, 1979). "Carver Hill Museum has city blessing". Pensacola, Florida: Pensacola News Journal. p. C1. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  7. ^ https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331974 [dead link‍]