![]() ![]() Only the 1920 Peabody building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “For things like robotics labs, for STEM centers, for perhaps adult education center," he said. Lewis said his group would like to re-purpose one of the buildings for supplemental education. “I don’t think it should be made into another apartment complex." “When you talk about historic significance and tourism, and all that sort of thing, what better place to come than to the city that has the oldest public black high school in the United States," Lewis said. Kenneth Lewis, who is part of a group called Peabody Academic Learning Development Center, said his group has tried for years to get access to the property to use for educational purposes. So she instilled in me a lifetime dream of graduation from Peabody," Treska Wilson-Smith, who attended Peabody High, said.ĭr. Multiple buildings sit on the school property.Īll were used for educating African Americans during segregation. "It’s sad to see, that there has been a lack of vision and direction by our city government for this property.” “It’s a travesty," Larry Akin Smith, Peabody High School Class of 1970, said. The 100-plus-year-old school was recently listed as one of Preservation Virginia's most endangered historic sites in the state. Peabody High School, the only public high school for African-Americans in Petersburg from 1920 to 1970, may soon be lost to history. ![]()
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