King William Training School was erected here in 1922-23 on the site of the King William Academy, which stood from 1903 to 1922. The Rosenwald Foundation, which built more than 5,300 black schools in the South, the African American community, and the county funded the school. Constructed as a Rosenwald Foundation Plan 4A building, it had natural lighting, four classrooms with a fifth added in 1927, and an auditorium, library, and office. The school provided a formal education in grades one through twelve, serving as a high school until 1952 and as an elementary school until 1961. The Pamunkey Baptist Association bought the King William Training School in 1962.