St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School
National Register of Historic Places

St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School

Pocahontas, Randolph County, Arkansas
Listed
August 4, 2002
Type
Building
Period
Colonial
Ref No.
02000830

About this property

The Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum is a historic community building at 1708 Archer Street in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Originally built as an African Methodist Episcopal Church and known as St. Mary's AME Church, it is a small one-room wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and novelty siding. A flat-roof addition expands the building to the right. The main facade has two entrances, each sheltered by a small gable-roofed hood. The building was built in 1918, to provide facilities for a church and school to the small African-American community in Pocahontas. It served as a church for thirty years, and as a school known as Pocahontas Colored School for fifty, and was later adapted for other uses, most recently as a museum and community center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the St. Mary's AME Church—Pocahontas Colored School. It was a one-room schoolhouse. Eddie Mae Herron was a teacher in the Biggers School District who transferred to Pocahontas after Biggers Colored School closed, along with that school's students, becoming Pocahontas Colored School's only teacher between 1948 and 1965.

Location

1708 Archer St.
Pocahontas, Randolph County, Arkansas
36.26220, -90.98147

Categories

EDUCATION
Sources

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

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When was St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School listed on the National Register?

St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 2002.

What type of historic resource is St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School?

St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School is recorded as the colonial era, specifically around 1708.

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