Long High School was completed in 1955 in Cheraw and replaced Coulter Academy as the primary African American high school. It was named for Rev. G.W. Long, president of Coulter Academy from 1908 until 1943, and its first principal was Henry L. Marshall. Praised as a thoroughly modern facility, the school included a library, science lab, agriculture, woodworking and masonry workshops, and home economics classrooms. Long High also played an integral role in the African American community by hosting cultural events and serving as a venue for strategic political planning during the 1960s. The school remained segregated by race from its opening until Chesterfield County complied with federal desegregation requirements in 1970. Its last class graduated in 1970 with Otis L. Ford as principal, and the original school was razed in 1999.