Little River County Training School Historic District
National Register of Historic Places

Little River County Training School Historic District

Ashdown, Little River County, Arkansas
Listed
January 26, 2016
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
15000994

About this property

The Little River County Training School Historic District encompasses the surviving buildings of a defunct once-segregated vocational school in Ashdown, Arkansas. It occupies two city blocks, bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, and Hamilton, Wood, and Byrne Streets. The surviving buildings are a classroom building, the gymnasium, and the shop building. All are single story brick structures, and were built between 1962 and 1965. They represent the last surviving buildings in Little River County that were used as segregated facilities. The school was first developed in the 1920s, with funding and other support from the Rosenwald Fund; a building burned down in 1957, and another in 1980. The school was used in an integrated setting, mainly as a junior high school, until 1979, when the new Junior High opened for the 1979–1980 school year. The building on Hamilton Street was utilized as a Primary Center until it burned, in 1980. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

Location

100 W. Hamilton St.
Ashdown, Little River County, Arkansas
33.66802, -94.13018

Categories

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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Nearby Historic Sites

Little River County Courthouse
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0.3 mi
Hunter-Coulter House
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0.3 mi
Ashdown Commercial Historic District
Civil War
0.4 mi
Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad Depot
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0.4 mi
Old US 71-Ashdown Segment
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0.7 mi

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Little River County Training School Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 2016.

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Little River County Training School Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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