Reid's Grove School, still on its original site, educated African American students in the Gatesville area. Completed on November 5, 1927, and closed in 1951, it was one of seven schools in Gates County and one of over 800 in North Carolina financed by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, to educate black students during segregation. The building later housed the local North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service office for African Americans and was renamed the Mitchell Building in honor of Howard Mitchell, the state's first black extension agent. The building was entered in the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 2011.