The Greensville County Training School began sometime before 1912 as a small wood-frame building and contributed to African American education in Emporia for more than 50 years. In 1912, widow Lucy Magee sold two acres known as the Magee Tract to Greensville County's Belfield school board for $1,000, and from 1912 to 1913 a four-room brick graded school was built there. Reverend J.H. Waller, the principal, and teacher Blanch Harrison organized the County School League to raise money for additional facilities. Additions were made to the original building in 1916, 1929, 1934, and the early 1940s. In 1929, support of $1,700 from the Julius Rosenwald Fund helped expand the school, which the fund called the South Emporia Training School, and that addition made it one of the largest Virginia schools begun through the Rosenwald program. By 1933, Greensville County Public Schools' four-year curriculum was accredited. The school offered home economics, vocational agriculture, carpentry, masonry, and general courses including English and history. It also served as a center of Emporia's African American community and housed meetings of the local NAACP chapter. In 1954, the new separate but equal Wyatt High School opened about a mile to the northwest, African American high school students moved there, and the training school became a learning center for Black elementary students. It closed after desegregation in the 1960s.