The Alachua County Training School was built at this location in 1922 as the first school for blacks in the City of Alachua. In 1920, a delegation of black men from Alachua led by Jack Postell, who could neither read nor write, approached the Alachua County School Board to seek a school for the city’s black children. Inspired by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which aided construction of African American schools in the rural South, Postell and his delegation were directed to raise $10,000 for construction and did so within two years, including $1,600 from the Rosenwald Fund and support from the John F. Slater Fund to furnish the school. The school opened in September 1922 with Napoleon B. Campbell as its first principal and 300 students ages 7-25 in grades 1-6. By 1938, grades 7-12 had been added. Students received an education emphasizing agriculture and home economics as well as academic subjects. A.L. Mebane served as principal from 1924 until the 1950s. The one-story frame vernacular building, set on a brick pier foundation with lattice infill, had exposed rafter tails, decorative gable end brackets, nine-over-one double hung windows, an auditorium, and seven classrooms. It operated for 36 years as a mainstay of the African-American community until its demolition in 1959, and many graduates returned to the county after college as successful contributing professionals.