Carver-Hill School

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.

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

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]

References
  1. "Sports History". www.carverhillmemorialandhistoricalsocietyinc.org.
  2. [email protected], Heather Osbourne | 315-4440 | @heatheronwfdn. "The Carver-Hill Museum tells stories of Okaloosa's segregated black students". Northwest Florida Daily News.
  3. Freeman, Danielle. "Carver-Hill High School And The Early Education Of Afro-Americans in Crestview". www.wuwf.org.
  4. News, Ann Spann | Special to Daily. "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
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