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The Fairfax Rosenwald School, also known as the Fairfax Colored School, was constructed on this site in 1925–26, replacing an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of Fairfax Cemetery. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., formed the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic foundation that funded construction of over 5,000 schools for African-Americans across the rural South between 1917 and 1932. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was one of four such schools built in Fairfax County. It was demolished in 1951 and replaced by Eleven Oaks School.
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